LG will no longer manufacture the UBK80 and UBK90 UHD Blu-ray players, which it introduced back in 2018. Both devices play regular Blu-ray discs as well as UHD 4K disc, in addition to CDs, standard DVDs and 3-D Blu-rays. The UBK90 also plays Dolby Vision ...

LG tells FlatpanelsHD it could produce more units if demand increases, although it hasn’t developed a new Blu-ray player since 2018.

In a sign of the times, LG has announced the discontinuation of its Blu-ray players, including the UBK80 and UBK90 UHD models.

As reported by FlatpanelsHD.com, it looks like LG is pulling out of the Blu-ray player market. Searching LG’s website will bring up individual pages for Blu-ray players, such as the UBK80 and BP350, but every selection is listed as “Discontinued.”

It's been almost six years since LG launched its last Blu-ray players, the UBK80 and UBK90 UHD. As reported by FlatpanelsHD, the Korean firm will not

Sony recently wound down blu-ray production, and now top competitor LG is following suit. No more disks, no more players. For major manufacturers, the format (if not optical media entirely) will soon be history.

Following in line with Samsung and Oppo, LG is halting any further production of its Blu-ray players with all current units in stock being the very last in rotation.