Sony to make 10 million Blu-ray disks a month
Posted on 13/07/06 16:06 by Dan Bell                             
Sony to make 10 million Blu-ray disks a month

D4rk0n3 used our news submit to tell us about this story he spotted over at The Inquirer, that indicates Sony is figuring on putting out a lot of Blu-ray discs! First in Japan, then they will begin increasing manufacture in the US and Europe, at some pretty impressive rates.

THE MANUFACTURING arm of Sony said it has started manufacturing BD video content in Japan which uses the Advanced Access Content System copyright protection system.

It is moving from sheet coating to spin coating for the BD disks and will complete that by the end of the year, it said.By then, US factories will be producing five million disks a month, Europe will be producing 2.5 million BD disks a month, while so will its Japanese factory.By the end of the year, Sony will be making 10 million disks a month, including production for Playstation 3, it said.

 

Source: The Inquirer

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By jef195, Thu 13 Jul 2006 16:16
Save the Environment...Close Sony Down.Wink
By SilverBlade2k, Thu 13 Jul 2006 17:09
10 million discs + 10 million rootkits
By Bodygard, Thu 13 Jul 2006 17:29
True puke I don't understand this...suposedly with DRM in BD-R, piracy will stumble(clown) so why is the the need for such a large quantities?clown
By psychoace, Thu 13 Jul 2006 19:25
As it's stated for PS3 games. Madden 2006 sold a million alone on it's release day. Then they have the Movie Market. Then this might include burnable Blu Ray disc's so there is that market as well.
By Rich86, Thu 13 Jul 2006 20:22
Rich86Well, as long as there are folks buying all this stuff, I guess it's ok. But I won't be one of them in any hurry. javascript:smilie('puke') puke
By vurbano, Thu 13 Jul 2006 20:58
So Sony is going to make 10 million more pieces of crap a month. Because so far that is what the BluRay movies are.
By Electrox3d, Thu 13 Jul 2006 21:20
Electrox3dlol, you obviously haven't seen real filmed in High Def bluray movies. The only thing better is the Master reel.
By Kenshin, Thu 13 Jul 2006 22:35
It's unfortunate that nearly all of them will be WRITE-ONCE media WITHOUT cartridges. And VERY SLOW.
By heystoopid, Fri 14 Jul 2006 00:20
Hmm, oh how I do love pie in the sky figures, of what will be needed if all goes according to plan! Sadly there is too much missing information, what if's, but's and maybe's for these levels of production, to reach actual reality! If truth be told, they would need the combined production from the very cheap Hong Kong and Indian plants to come close to the claimed figures! Oh well, nice propaganda, be the polite description , for this misinformation!puke
By Kenshin, Fri 14 Jul 2006 11:42
You'd lead Sony to go to Hong Kong just to produce 10 million WRITE-ONCE optical media? Would such a number justify the soaring cost of shipping, etc.? Taiwanese optical media manufacturers think in terms of billions, not millions. 10 million to them is nothing, just nothing. It's difficult to make US$0.1 out of each disk sold to OEM or distributors. Consider the cost of R&D and marketing as well. Let Ritek, CMC, and some more announce their own plans.
By vurbano, Fri 14 Jul 2006 20:37
Like the House of flying artifacts on BluRay? Until Sony uses VC-1 like HD DVD it will be far inferior to HD DVD.
By B110, Fri 14 Jul 2006 21:02
Extra, extra! B110 to buy 0 of them per year puh

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