Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning

ChipBoundary said:

Optical discs are not now, nor will they ever be, a suitable media for archival storage. Anybody that thought so was only deluding themselves. They decay over a short period of years, relatively speaking. Also, keep in mind that the BDA may regulate the usage of them, but they are a non-profit that doesn't actually own the technology. Sony invented it, and they own. If they say everyone has to stop making them, nobody gets a choice.

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I have some verbatim DVD's that I burned in 1999 that are still perfectly fine. Now CD's are not as reliable! I have some burned music CD's from 1997 and a couple have failed.

It would seem that people don't get it, the next generation of optical is on the horizon and will leave Bluray behind. This article is nothing-sauce. Moving on...

Honestly until the next generation of optical is out, it's vaporware. If you rely on optical media, having the old format go out of production before the next new thing is out is a problem.

I mean, with tape.. well, it's a bad example since I think you can STILL buy even something like a DC1 tape.. but they made sure the new formats were out before the old ones went anywhere near going out of production.

This has been a problem with certain commercial software too (Microsoft has had issues with this for sure), coming out with a new version of some software and discontinuing the "legacy" version before the new one is feature complete. And programming APIs.. some of which they just ended up dropping since people just kept using the old API rather than the new one that was ~90% feature complete but people REALLY needed those other 10%.