Pioneer reportedly pulls out of Blu-ray drive business

[Redaktion]

Pioneer has reportedly pulled out of the optical drive business, including Blu-ray and DVD recorders, after 30 years of manufacturing such drives. Moving forward, the company will focus on electronics for cars such as navigation systems.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Pioneer-reportedly-pulls-out-of-Blu-ray-drive-business.1009797.0.html

[noadc]

The accuracy of the last paragraph, which stated that "LG remains one of the last manufacturers of Blu-ray recorders", was pretty severely undercut when I scrolled down and saw one of the "Related Articles" waa "LG exits Blu-ray player market," dated 12/12/2024.

[Cristi]

Blu Ray player is one thing, and a recorder is an entirely different thing.

[anonimous]

unfortunate. pioneer was the last drives that where of any quality. (btw the link to the wh14ns40 drive is broken lol)

[Tito]

Blu Ray player is one thing, and a recorder is an entirely different thing.

It wasn't just the recorders that had compatibility issues. Even the players couldn't read the later 100GB generation discs that came out. Some studios such as Disney never released discs beyond the 50GB thus ensuring compatibility on all their releases as they didn't want to deal with the headaches of releasing content on 100GB discs that families wouldn't up confused and upset that such and such player couldn't play disc.

For recording and backing up content, the discs were too expensive compared with hard drives, tape, and cloud, thus most enterprises, consumers, and businesses never adopted Blu-ray for data storage.