The Future Of Physical Discs Just Suffered Another Blow Courtesy Of Pioneer

The Future Of Physical Discs Just Suffered Another Blow Courtesy Of Pioneer

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on What Hi-Fi? Japanese brand Pioneer has announced that it has bid farewell to the optical disc market. It was one of the last big Japanese companies to make optical drives after more than 30 years as a leader in CD, DVD, and Blu-ray drive technology. The last 4K Blu-ray players the company produced were the UDP-LX500 and UDP-LX800 in 2019. We had the former in our test rooms and gave it five star…

Japanese brand Pioneer has officially announced its exit from the optical disc market, despite being one of the largest manufacturers of CD, DVD and Blu-ray technology in the world for the past 30 years. The last new 4K Blu-ray player models produced by Pioneer, the UDP-LX500 and UDP-LX800, were released in 2019, and many recognized them as one of the most successful 4K Blu-ray players in the world. Since then...