Thanks for the update (OP and publisher). It wasn’t clear from the previous posts given the ambiguous language.

Are you sure about that?

I’ve read both articles and they both seem to say they are stopping production of Blu-rays, plus three other formats.

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

It mentions that consumer recordable Blu-rays were already dropped last year.

Mid-last year, the Japanese multinational conglomerate revealed that it would stop production of consumer-grade recordable Blu-ray discs (BD-RE and BD-R)

Still, this might just mean that Sony will no longer make games distributed via disc. Sony does not have a Monopoly on making Blu-ray discs, and I do not believe they can unilaterally decide that no more will be made by others

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_optical_disc_manufacturers

Regardless, it is a sign of the times, with Blu-ray reader production being recently stopped by LG. It’s likely all downhill from here, as much as I am sad to say.

I will resist this as much as possible, as I like owning my media. If you give me no means to own my movies, then I will find other ways to acquire them.

This should be obvious, but even children will invent basic language. You only need to look as far as the deaf community for that, that always came up with pidgin languages even as they were forced to try and learn spoken language.

There’s an interesting free short documentary here: https://www.bslzone.co.uk/watch/history-deaf-education-1