Maxell to no longer manufacture discs, blow customers away

Though the Maxell brand name will live on, the company announced it is ending production of CD, DVD, Blu-ray and HD DVD discs at the end of the month. It plans to outsource to other manufacturers (like Mitsubishi perhaps?) and though the name on the packaging will be the same, we just don't see how anyone else can provide the rather unique experience of Maxell tape discs.

[Via Impress]

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2008 7:59AM]

What's up with everyone quitting production of stuff?

Toshiba - no HD DVD
Pioneer - no plasma
Maxell - no media

Weird...

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2008 10:09AM]

Welcome to the wonderful world of razor thin profit margins, dirt cheap products from China (low quality control coming with it), Wal-Mart and globalization.

It's the unfortunate consequence of consumers wanting cheap cheap cheap.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2008 8:44AM]

so if they dont do discs anymore what else do they have under their portfolio? i only know them for discs

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2008 12:26PM]

Are they going to continue manufacturing their MiniDV tapes??? Those are the only ones that work in my digital video cameras!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2008 2:20PM]

Same here. I've had nothing but good luck with their MiniDV tapes, and nothing but bad luck with everything else I've ever tried.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2008 5:03PM]

After this is done, maybe I'll start buying Maxell again. I've had allot of problems with their CD-R media.

[JDM Posted Mar 8th 2008 4:42PM]

I thought Maxell quit making their own media a long time ago. Almost none the media brands on the store shelf actually are made by the company on the label, most of them are made by companies whose name never appears on the label. Sometimes people can differentiate who makes the discs with a given label by the country that's made, I think TDK had a couple different grades, made in Japan was Taiyo Yuden, made somewhere else was Ritek.