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Friday 24 June 2011
Blu-ray disc makers slow down capacity ramp projects
Taiwan-based blank optical disc makers, mainly Ritek and CMC Magnetics, have slowed down their capacity expansion projects for Blu-ray Disc (BD) due to lower than expected growth...
Tuesday 24 May 2011
Taiwan BD makers facing strong competition from India-based MBI
Despite global Blu-ray disc (BD) sales are rising in 2011, since Taiwan-based BD makers including CMC Magnetics and Ritek, will only have limited capacity growth in 2011, while competitor...
Thursday 5 May 2011
Taiwan pre-recorded disc makers facing risk of weakening gross margin
Taiwan-based pre-recorded DVD makers in 2011 are facing strong pressure from increasing raw material costs, with related end sales significantly impacted by online multimedia sharing...
Thursday 5 May 2011
Quanta Storage to focus on maintaining gross margin
Taiwan-based optical drive maker Quanta Storage, facing declines in both shipments and revenues in early 2011, has turned conservative about its performance in the future and is also...
Thursday 14 April 2011
Taiwan market: Blu-ray disc player sales expected to surpass 100,000 units in 2011
Blu-ray disc player sales in Taiwan may surpass 100,000 units in 2011 as players such as Toshiba, Sony, LG, Panasonic and Sharp all launched models with prices less than US$100 in...
Friday 25 March 2011
Digitimes Insight: Sony PS3 supply may run tight due to quake-hit laser diode production
The massive earthquake in Japan has impacted the supply chain of Blu-ray Disc (BD) players. Blue laser diodes used in BD players' optical pick-up head units (OPU) are mainly produced...
Thursday 24 March 2011
Sony, Nintendo console sales impacted by Japan earthquake
Supply of Sony's Blu-ray drive pick-up heads is facing danger of seeing shortages as the plants of Sony Shiraishi Semiconductor, a Blu-ray drive pick-up head manufacturing subsidiary...
Thursday 17 March 2011
Taiwan market: Blu-ray expected to see 10% share of media player shipments in 2011
Shipments of Blu-ray disc players in Taiwan in 2010 reached only around 30,000 units, accounting for less than 5% of the total media player shipments of 630,000 units; however, sources...
Wednesday 16 March 2011
Prices for white-box Blu-ray Disc loaders fall to below US$20, say Taiwan makers
Quotes for white-box Blu-ray Disc (BD) loaders, main bodies including BD chips and pick-up heads for being assembled into BD players or PC-use drives, have dropped to below US$20,...
Friday 11 March 2011
Taiwan market: 60,000-72,000 Blu-ray Disc players to be sold in 2011
Sales of Blu-ray Disc (BD) players, including recorders, will reach 60,000-72,000 units in Taiwan in 2011, according to local retail channels.
Monday 7 March 2011
Global demand for blank Blu-ray Discs to grow to 412 million units in 2013, says JRIA
The global demand for blank Blu-ray Discs (BD) in 2010 was estimated at 113 million units, up 156.82% from 2009, and is projected to be continue growing to 412 million discs in 2013,...
Thursday 24 February 2011
Fire strikes Ritek plants causing tight supply of Blu-ray discs
A fire broke out at optical disc maker Ritek's plants in Hsinchu, Taiwan before the Lunar New Year holidays. Despite the company announcing that the fire would not impact its operations,...
Thursday 27 January 2011
Optical drive component maker Topray sees strong growth in 2010 revenues
Taiwan-based maker of pick up heads (PUH) for optical drives, Topray Technology, saw its revenues reach NT$1.11 billion (US$38.2 million), up 41.36% from NT$784 million in 2009, according...
Wednesday 5 January 2011
CES 2011: Lite-On IT joint venture PLDS to showcase Blu-ray Disc drives, SSDs
Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions (PLDS), a joint venture of Lite-On IT and Philips will exhibit three Liteon Blu-ray Disc (BD) drives, Plextor BD drives and SSDs at the upcoming...
Friday 24 December 2010
CMC expects revenues proportion for Blu-ray Disc to rise to 25% in 2011
Taiwan's largest optical disc maker CMC Magnetics, in view of relatively high gross margins for Blu-ray discs, will increase output and expects the corresponding proportion of total...