Sony to Discontinue Manufacture of Blank MiniDiscs

[BearBoy]

I guess it had to happen eventually but Sony have announced the end of Minidisc manufacturing

 

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Notice regarding the end of production of Blu-ray Disc media, MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV cassettes

Thank you for your continued patronage of Sony products.

We will end production of all models of Blu-ray Disc media, MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV cassettes as of February 2025. There will be no successor models.

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our many customers for their patronage to date.

 

LINK

 

Bit of a sad day but surprised it lasted as long as it did. They outlasted blank Blu-rays too!

 

Now, do I need some more MDW80Ts 🤔

[kgallen]

We’ve got enough stock haven’t we? Please tell me we have - or that you just pressed ‘go’ on Amazon Japan 🤭😆

[BearBoy]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've got enough to be going on with.

 

Although I did have a quick peek on Amazon.co.jp after seeing the news. Fortunately/unfortunately, none were available for delivery to the UK 😄

 

I imagine this news might push up the eBay pricing a bit though?

[BearBoy]

I keep meaning to do a proper stock take as my spreadsheet's out of date but a quick rummage through some boxes in my office turned up 370 sealed blanks 🙄 I don't think I need to start panic buying more 🤔

[kgallen]

😆 ’spreadsheet’ - and I thought I was a disc nutter 🤣

[BearBoy]

It's a sickness 🤣

[kgallen]

You mean we could have bought MDW80T direct from Sony for 2GBP each?

 

https://pur.store.sony.jp/rec-media/products/MDW80T/MDW80T_purchase/

[sfbp]

Ha! I was buying 1GB disks for that in the day 🙂