Monday, November 20th 2006
Sony increases 50Gb Blu-ray disk production
As of today, Sony has six factories churning out 50Gb Blu-ray disks, and nine factories making the 25Gb single layer versions. Sony has also increased the production of Blu-ray disks to around 60,000 a day. The recent surge in popularity is caused by what Sony calls "superior, uncompressed audio and high bit-rate video" on the Blu-ray. In a press release, Sony said this about Blu-ray performance.
Source:
The Inquirer
We are encouraged by the performance of both our 25GB single layer and 50GB dual layer production technologies, both of which are meeting our expectations.Over three million disks have been produced this year, to roughly 35 major OEM partners.
6 Comments on Sony increases 50Gb Blu-ray disk production
It gives a nice idea of how crappy DVD is.
Unlike the move to DVD, all you needed was a DVD player.
Now with HDDVD, you dont just need a HDDVD player, but a HDTV as well which arent cheap (yes cheaper than they were but not cheap).
This I believe will hinder people from buying these.