Sony Blu-ray Media Meeting

pinkacidbootson · 4 Sep 2006 at 03:22

I thought the console section was the most appropriate place to post this.

The article itself is in Japanese, so here's some highlights from the meeting:

*Current yields at 80-85% (85% at single-layer, 80% dual-layer)

*One line can produce a single-layer BRD every 5 seconds, or every 6 seconds for dual-layer.

*The new lines all use the spin coating method for the protective layer, this is a change of plans for Sony which was using a different method for the first single-layer discs, but follows what other big producers are doing or have planned. (This change could have been the source of the slow pace of 50GB media availability.)

*Sony pulled 50GB media, picked at random from a production line, that worked on a new Viao Blu-ray laptop. The media used both layers for the classic war movie "The Bridge Over the River Kwai" Blu-ray release.

*Sony plans three duplication bases in Europe, Japan and the US for production of PS3 and movie discs. The three bases will enable production of titles at a rate of 300,000 per base per month at the outset, ramping up to a total of 10,000,000 from all three bases per month.(2,500,000 ea. in Japan and Europe, 5,000,000 in US.)

*The 80-85% yield number still has a lot of room for improvement, as Sony points out that DVD yields are at 90-95% and produce at the rate of around 3 per second per line. Still, by contrast, when CD format was introduced, yields were at 15%, so Sony likes starting at this point in comparison.

I've seen quite a few people on this forum comment on how Sony are unable to produce the dual layer discs at all, let alone in large numbers. Hopefully this should dispel those fears.

Caustic · 4 Sep 2006 at 14:43

Very interesting. Good to hear something positive about Blu-Ray etc.

Please can you post the source, or where you saw the story, I don't like it when someone just cut and pastes a clip without saying where they got it.

pinkacidbootson · 4 Sep 2006 at 17:40

This might be it but it's hard to tell. Its somewhere on that website anyway.

cheets64 · 4 Sep 2006 at 18:00

Thats a lot of new movies to buy, its too early for a new media and I wont be updating to blu-ray or HD DVD for another 5 years+, not even got a HD TV yet.

pinkacidbootson · 9 Sep 2006 at 02:05

Plenty of discs, not enough drives to read 'em