Friday, December 09, 2005
Panasonic Begins Blu-Ray Production
"Panasonic has announced that they have begun pilot Blu-Ray production of dual-layer 50GB discs in their Torrance, California factory. They claim to already have an 80% success rate in production. Engadget and The Register, among other, have also reported on this." From the Register: "Matsushita's Panasonic subsidiary has retooled its US Blu-ray Disc (BD) production line to offer not only 25GB single-layer discs but also 50GB dual-layer media ... Panasonic's plant, located in Torrance, California, is still in the pilot stage, but the company claimed it is already punching out BDs with a yield of over 80 per cent - so it has to bin fewer than 20 per cent of the discs it produces, which seems rather a lot in the context of a low-cost, mass-market medium."
source:http://slashdot.org/articles/05/12/09/1441213.shtml?tid=188&tid=97
source:http://slashdot.org/articles/05/12/09/1441213.shtml?tid=188&tid=97
# posted by dark master : 12/09/2005 09:42:00 AM
