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Sony Is NOT Cancelling Blu-ray Movie Releases All Image Credit: Sony In a press released dated 1/23/2025, Sony (Recording Media) announced that it will be ceasing all production of RECORDABLE Blu-ray media, NOT Pre-recorded Blu-ray and 4K UHD Blu-ray movie discs. That recordable media includes; Blu-ray disc Media, MiniDiscs, MiniDV […]

Sony Is NOT Cancelling Blu-ray Movie Releases

January 24, 2025 in News / Plastic / Video tagged 4K / Blu-Ray / movies / Physical Media / Plastic / Plastic Disc Sales / Sony / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

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Target To Ditch DVD and Blu-ray Store Sales First, it was sales pulled by Disney in Australia and several Asian and Latin American markets, then it was Best Buy, now its Target, both of who have now stopped or are about to stop DVD and Blu-ray Physical Media sales. Target […]

Target To Ditch DVD and Blu-ray Store Sales

April 29, 2024 in News / Plastic / Video tagged Blu-ray Sales / DVD Sales / Physical Media / Plastic Disc Sales / Target by fromvinyltoplastic

RIAA 2023 Year End Report – Vinyl Growth Continues All Image Credit: RIAA According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), 2023 Year End report, RIAA US recorded music industry revenues generated $17.1 billion in 2023, continuing to build on the upward trends of 2021 and 2022. The RIAA […]

RIAA 2023 Year End Report – Vinyl Growth Continues

March 28, 2024 in News / Plastic / Vinyl tagged 2023 Final Report / Physical Media / RIAA / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic

Best Buy To Exit Physical Media All Image Credit: Best Buy According to Bill Hunt, the editor of the LA based Digital Bits web site, “Best Buy plans to exit the physical media business for good next year, possibly as soon as the end of Q1 2024”. This includes both […]

Best Buy To Exit Physical Media

October 13, 2023 in News / Plastic / Video tagged Best Buy / Death of Physical Media / Physical Media by fromvinyltoplastic

Disney To Cease Supplying Physical Media – In Australia All Image Credit: Sanity Well having found many of the recent Disney audio mixes on Blu-ray 4K lack luster, it now appears that this behemoth of a movie studio is starting to pull out of some Blu-ray markets due to lack […]

Disney To Cease Supplying Physical Media

July 31, 2023 in News / Plastic tagged 4K / Blu-Ray / Death of Physical Media / Disney+ / Physical Media / Plastic / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

RIAA – Vinyl Outsold Plastic in 2022 All Image Credit: RIAA The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) have just released (March 9th), it’s 2022 year end report on music sales. The RIAA has confirmed that LP’s outsold CD’s in 2022 by physical unit count. This is the first time […]

RIAA – Vinyl Outsold Plastic in 2022

March 14, 2023 in News / Plastic / Vinyl tagged 2022 / CD Sales / Physical Media / Plastic / Plastic Disc Sales / RIAA / Vinyl / Vinyl Sales by fromvinyltoplastic

Vinyl Nation – The Documentary All Image Credit: Vinyl Nation Released by 1091 Pictures in April 2022, Vinyl Nation is a documentary, directed by Christopher Boone and Kevin Smokler, that takes a look at why this dying medium has become the 21st Century’s physical media format of choice, the diversification […]

Vinyl Nation – The Documentary

February 6, 2023 in News / Vinyl tagged Physical Media / Vinyl / Vinyl Nation by fromvinyltoplastic

4K UHD Disc Sales – What Sales? A Personal Comment I was just reading the web site Media Play News and noticed the above physical media sales figures for the week ending March 26th. Now I realize that this is only for one week but peaking at others there is […]

4K UHD Disc Sales – What Sales?

April 6, 2022 in News / Personal Views & Comments / Plastic / Video tagged 4K / 4K UHD Disc Sales / Media Play News / Physical Media / Plastic / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

Physical Media 2020 Update — Physical Media 2020 Annual Update Final Update For 2020 Physical Media Sales. So for the first half of 2020 the mid-year update on the health of the plastic physical media and other formats looked to be very close to where it was expected to be…..down about 20% on 2019, in […]

Physical Media 2020 Annual Update

January 28, 2021 in News / Plastic tagged DEG / Media Play News / Physical Media / The Digital Entertainment Group by fromvinyltoplastic

Physical Media Takes Another Hit! — Physical Media Takes Another Hit! The Rumor Mill It is strongly rumored by Bill Hunt, the Editor in Chief of The Digital Bits that Disney is going to be restricting the release of their existing live action catalog and that of the recently purchased 20th Century Fox Film company, to 4K only […]

Physical Media Takes Another Hit!

August 12, 2020 in News / Plastic tagged 4K / Death of Physical Media / Disney+ / Physical Media / Streaming / Ultra HD / Walt Disney / Warner Media by fromvinyltoplastic

US Blu-ray Sales Decline In 2020 — Physical Media Sales Seriously Decline It is with a heavy heart that I have to say that convenience and video mediocrity is catching us all up. With a drop in physical media sales of 50% between 2014 and 2018 things do not look too bright for the 4K […]

Physical Media Sales Seriously Decline

April 24, 2019 in News / Plastic tagged 4K / DVD / MPAA / Physical Media / Plastic / Sales Decline / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

The Death Of Physical Media — The Death Of Physical Media So with the tormentous announcements from both Oppo and Samsung about stopping manufacturing all Blu-ray players you can be forgiven for thinking that those shinny plastic discs are on their way out. Well they are NOT. First things first. There is no other source available […]

The Death Of Physical Media

February 20, 2019 in News / Plastic tagged 4K / 4K Blu-ray Player / Blu-Ray / HD / Physical Media / Plastic / UHD / Vinyl by fromvinyltoplastic