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Sony won't phase out Blu-ray movie and game discs, only ceasing production on consumer BD-R
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Not sure where you get this, but the standard is now ruled by Blu-ray Disk Association. There's no mention about patent. I've looked on the Wikipedia page and the only mention about royalty is about the video codec.