Blu-Ray disc production starts in US

[ssdivisiongermany1933]

SONY HAS has ordered its US subsidiary to begin the mass-production of Blu-ray ROM disk drives.

The Japanese outfit will produce 25,000 single-layer 25 gigabyte Blu-ray discs per day, or up to 750,000 discs per month at its plant in Terre Haute in Indiana.

It aims to step up production to 50 million discs per month by October and manufacture 50 gigabyte dual-layer discs.

Part of the push will be to coincide with the PlayStation 3 launch in November, which will use the new format.

Blu-Ray players and computers are starting to hit the market and there will need to be a lot of discs to support that. Sony also plans to start releasing movie titles on the Blu-ray disc format from late June.

Of course, should HD-DVD win the format war, then all this industry will be like dust in the wind

[ravi_9793]

really cool move...
lets hope thet got success

[Vyasram]

i bet dat hddvd wd not be able to compete with them

[the deconstructionist]

Which ever player has backward compatibility and hollywood backing will win the race.

[Darthvader]

Well since Ps3 will exclusively use Blu ray it will certtainly get an edge as x360 has not yet used hd dvd

[anandk]

great !
from tapes and punch cards to bdd...a long journey !
click History of data storage : http://gadgets.fosfor.se/history-of-data-storage/

[alienspiesu]

man tis gona b cool..... 50 on a single disc.. damn..!! n even i read abt the functioning of the disk on their site.. damn gud guys.!! well blu-ray's gona Rok...