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Sony stopped shipping the player in February 2026, which implies it has been selling down existing inventory since then. Sony's only remaining device that plays Blu-ray discs is now the PlayStation 5. The company has also announced that it will end physical game disc production by January 2028, and that has some people wondering whether the PlayStation 6 will ship without an optical drive.\n\nSony is not the first to step back. LG ended Blu-ray player production in 2024, and the Japanese firms Elecom and Buffalo ended production of Blu-ray drives for PCs in 2026. Buffalo Americas said it is \"fully committed to supplying optical drives to the American market\" and expects its DVD and Blu-ray drives to stay available \"for the near future.\" Panasonic and other makers still sell players.\n\nThe symbolism outweighs the sales impact. Sony was one of the companies that built and backed the Blu-ray standard, so its exit leaves a small market with fewer big names. The pattern also differs from past format changes. VHS and DVD gave way to sharper formats, but Blu-ray is being displaced by streaming, which offers convenience rather than better picture quality. That trade means no physical copy, a point that worries data archivists.\n\nThe damage is spreading to the supply chain. Some Hi-Fi player makers have dropped products because optical drive makers stopped producing the components needed to read SACDs, a high-resolution audio disc format. Once the parts vanish, a format can fade even where demand remains. The open question is whether the PS5 era turns out to be the last one in which a mainstream console doubles as the household disc player.","[\"blu-ray\",\"sony\",\"physical-media\",\"playstation\"]","2026-10-22T14:04:08.000Z","2026-10-22T14:48:17.434Z","2026-11-08T00:18:38.909Z","published","Attribute the reporting to FlatpanelsHD via Tom's Hardware (the draft names neither, so the unattributed Sony game-disc-end-by-January-2028 claim and the discontinuation report read as the paper's own), and replace the unverified 'February 2026' and 'in 2026' (Sony shipments, Elecom\u002FBuffalo) with a confirmed year or 'earlier this year' tied to the publication date, since the source only says 'this year' and an earlier note suggested 2025.",[24,30,34,38],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Name FlatpanelsHD (the 'display-industry news site') and attribute the reporting to it or Tom's Hardware, and remove every 'the source says\u002Fgives\u002Fconfirms' line ('the source describes the Japanese listing only', 'nothing in the source confirms it', 'the source points to one reaction', 'gives no time period'), because readers can't see the source and these lines narrate its gaps instead of simply stating what is known. Also say 'February 2025' or otherwise anchor 'this year', make clear the 59% C","open",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"FlatpanelsHD is now named and attributed, but the line 'though the period and market behind those figures are not specified' still narrates the source's gaps, so drop it and either cut the 59% CD and 18% vinyl figures or attribute them to the reporting without implying a firm causal link to Blu-ray; also confirm the year for 'February' and Elecom\u002FBuffalo (the source only says 'this year', and the earlier note suggested 2025, not 2026), and make clear the discontinuation applies to Sony Japan.",{"id":35,"reviewer":26,"round":36,"reason":37,"status":29},"editor-r3",3,"The draft still gives no year for 'Sony stopped shipping the model in February' or for Elecom and Buffalo ending PC Blu-ray drive production (the source only says 'this year'), so anchor both with a confirmed year or 'earlier this year' tied to the publication date; the attribution, the removal of the 'source says' lines and the dropped 59%\u002F18% figures are otherwise fine.",{"id":39,"reviewer":26,"round":40,"reason":22,"status":29},"editor-r4",4,null,"consumer-tech",[44,45,46,47],"blu-ray","sony","physical-media","playstation",[49,52],{"name":50,"url":51},"Tom's Hardware","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.tomshardware.com\u002Ftech-industry\u002Fsony-japan-marks-last-standalone-4k-blu-ray-player-as-discontinued-playstation-5-now-the-only-blu-ray-player-left-in-sonys-lineup",{"name":53,"url":54},"Hacker News","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.techpowerup.com\u002F354081\u002Fsony-retires-its-last-4k-blu-ray-player-in-japan-ps5-is-all-thats-left",0,{"sections":57},[58,63,68,73,78,82,87,92,97,102,107,112,117,122],{"name":59,"slug":60,"count":61,"latest_published_at":62},"AI","ai",7110,"2026-11-08T14:34:09.000Z",{"name":64,"slug":65,"count":66,"latest_published_at":67},"Security","security",1099,"2026-11-08T15:24:01.000Z",{"name":69,"slug":70,"count":71,"latest_published_at":72},"Deals","deals",620,"2026-11-08T08:00:00.000Z",{"name":74,"slug":75,"count":76,"latest_published_at":77},"Policy","policy",604,"2026-11-07T15:48:26.000Z",{"name":79,"slug":42,"count":80,"latest_published_at":81},"Consumer Tech",336,"2026-11-08T21:00:00.000Z",{"name":83,"slug":84,"count":85,"latest_published_at":86},"Hardware","hardware",316,"2026-11-08T14:36:39.000Z",{"name":88,"slug":89,"count":90,"latest_published_at":91},"Science","science",222,"2026-11-07T16:19:17.000Z",{"name":93,"slug":94,"count":95,"latest_published_at":96},"Software","software",154,"2026-11-08T15:42:52.000Z",{"name":98,"slug":99,"count":100,"latest_published_at":101},"Startups","startups",150,"2026-11-06T16:50:01.000Z",{"name":103,"slug":104,"count":105,"latest_published_at":106},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",125,"2026-11-06T22:15:59.000Z",{"name":108,"slug":109,"count":110,"latest_published_at":111},"General","general",111,"2026-11-08T21:27:29.000Z",{"name":113,"slug":114,"count":115,"latest_published_at":116},"Gaming","gaming",94,"2026-11-08T20:52:05.000Z",{"name":118,"slug":119,"count":120,"latest_published_at":121},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":123,"slug":124,"count":125,"latest_published_at":126},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]