Sony Begins to Produce Blu-Ray Disc Movies in China
[01/20/2009 06:55 PM]Despite of extremely tough situation of the global economy, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on Tuesday opened up the first Blu-ray disc (BD) movie replication factory. The manufacturing facility will allow the company to sell Blu-ray content made in China inside the country, reducing manufacturing and fare costs and improving its own profitability.
The factory, which will be run in partnership with Shanghai Media Group, is a 130 thousand square foot facility located in the Shanghai area that will employ 200 workers and will be able to produce up to 500 thousand Blu-ray discs per month, reports The Hollywood Reporter web-site.
Currently Sony Pictures Home Entertainment offers 32 Blu-ray titles on the Chinese market and will expand that number to 100 by the end of the year, which will help Sony to push its high-definition video format onto the market flooded with pirated DVDs and Internet downloads.
It is noteworthy that Sony begins to produce Blu-ray movies in China ahead of the launch of competing CBHD high-definition media formats that is substantially based on Toshiba’s HD DVD technology.
The Shanghai facility is Sony's fourth Blu-ray production line in the world. The others are in Terre Haute, Indiana; Shizuoka, Japan and Salzburg, Austria. A fifth BD line is due to be added to the company's Pitman, New Jersey, facility by mid-2009, according to THR.
Tags: Blu-ray, HD DVD, CBHD, Sony
0
0
[Posted by: wetnap 
| Date: 01/20/09 10:09:02 PM]
0
0
[Posted by: alpha0ne 
| Date: 01/22/09 10:33:09 PM]6:09 pm | Second-Generation Kinect Sensor for Windows Due in 2014 – Microsoft. Microsoft Discloses Additional Details About Kinect 2
4:24 pm | New Technique May Open Up an Era of Atomic-Scale Semiconductor Devices. Atom-Scale Semiconductor Devices May Be Incoming, Thanks to New Researchers
11:30 pm | Kinect Support Is Not Mandatory for Xbox One Video Games – Microsoft. Microsoft Will Not Require Compulsory Support of Kinect from Xbox One Games
11:20 pm | Thermaltake Publishes List of PSUs Compatible with Intel Cori i “Haswell” Chips. 20 PSUs from Thermaltake Are Compatible with Next-Gen Intel Chips
11:10 pm | European Amazon Stores Start to List Xbox One with €599 Price-Tag. Microsoft Xbox One May Cost €599 in Europe, If First Listings Are Correct
9:28 pm | Apple to Assemble Macs in Texas, Set to Manufacture Parts Across the U.S. Apple’s Plan to Move Production Back to U.S. Gets Shape
9:12 pm | Microsoft Confident in Lack of Quality Issues with Xbox One Hardware. Microsoft Vows Xbox One Will Not Have RROD-Like Issues
8:52 pm | AMD Officially Launches New-Generation APUs for Mobile Applications [UPDATED]. AMD Introduces Kabini, Temash and Richland Accelerated Processing Units
6:51 pm | OCZ Reveals Vertex 450 Solid-State Drives: High-End Performance at Mainstream Prices. OCZ Introduces New SSDs Based on Indilinx Barefoot 3 Controller
3:40 pm | Nvidia Unveils GeForce GTX 780: GK110-Based Consumer Solution for $649. Nvidia’s Cut Down Titan LE Becomes GeForce GTX 780
Make Home Page
Add to Favorites
Xbitlabs on Facebook
XbitLabs is using Twitter
Windows Live Alerts
