Sony starts 25GB Blu-ray movie lines; 50GB discs due in fall
Posted on 21/05/06 16:22 by Dan Bell                             
Sony starts 25GB Blu-ray movie lines; 50GB discs due in fall

Sony DADC officially announced last week, their capability to produce 750,000 single-layer BD discs a month upon three Blu-ray replication lines in the U.S. This is just prior to the formats projected launch in the end of June. Not only are they running the lines, these facilities will be able to upgrade and produce dual-layer discs for studios with a 50 GB capacity in the fall of this year.

Sony DADC is the only U.S. company currently replicating Blu-ray discs and as such is expected to handle production for all Blu-ray studios.

Sony DADC said it expects to add manufacturing lines and increase capacity to nearly 5 million discs a month by October, ahead of the critical fourth quarter. By then, it says, it also will be able to make dual-layer 50GB discs on six lines.

It's unclear when the studios will have a title on a 50GB disc ready for market. Blu-ray supporting studios'”particularly Buena Vista Home Entertainment'”have been awaiting the 50GB discs, however. Greater capacity will allow for more high-definition bonus features that could be key to luring consumers to the format.

My goodness, that is one heck of a lot of high definition discs! You can check out the article in it's entirety, at the source, by visiting this link.

Source: Video Business

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By Dennis_Olof, Sunday 21 May 2006 22:56
HEHE, I guess sony is worried that HD-DVD will catch on before Blu-Ray discs come out. They better hurry up then, Not that I care. Questions we are all worried about: What is price on the discs ? Price on the burners ? Most of all, QUALITY thanks. We all know how DVD when that came out, expencive, bad quality media and so on.
By pinkish, Sunday 21 May 2006 23:23
burner is $1000, BD discs will be a lot more expensive (in a $/gigabyte comparison) than dual-layer DVD discs which are overpriced as well. i've followed the DVD writers' rise to fame since the first Pioneer, and from what i know they started being reliable by 3rd of 4th generation, so we'll probably have to wait 2 years before gettin the new writers. 25gigs is good to backup stuff, but as one friend said: "what do you do if you accidentally ruin/break a BD or HDDVD disc? you'll lose 25 gigs of data" ... it's got me thinkin'.


[edited by pinkish on 21.05.2006 23:25]
By psychoace, Monday 22 May 2006 05:39
with the rise of xbox 360 being hacked dual layer dvd's might drop real soon. Also bd discs are 30 bucks each. Also what would you do if you lost even 4.7gig of data when dvd's first came out and cost 20-30 bucks a pop? No matter how big or small losing data sucks. To put 25gig of pictures/videos of family and friends on a new format is not a very smart thing to do.
By Dennis_Olof, Monday 22 May 2006 12:26
Good points made here Smilie I agree with you all. I am not putting my photos and other verry important stuff on new media, I go for slow writing on high quality CD-R media. That should be safe for 5 years before you reburn the disc. But I don't have any important photos. I still use a old analog camera and develop film. My photos are to important to be distroyed by some stupid technology crap.
By shaolin007, Monday 22 May 2006 23:24
shaolin007Nah, you won't see me with either HDDVD or BR after seeing a demo model of HDDVD at Bestbuy. The only thing that I saw different in a comparison was HDDVD looked slightly, and I mean slightly, clearer than a regular upscale dvd. Even the saleperson confessed this fact. Not inlcuding that to watch 1080p you have to have a gargantuan tv to begin with. I'll pass on both thankyou very much!
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