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Friday 16 April 2010
Taiwan Blu-ray Disc consortium plans to negotiate lower royalty fees
Taiwan Blu-ray Disc (BD) Consortium, a special interest group formed by Taiwan-based makers of BD optical discs, disc drives and components, plans to consolidate all members concerned...
Thursday 25 March 2010
China market: China Hualu offers Blu-ray Disc player at 1,499 yuan
The China-based China Hualu Group is showcasing its new Blu-ray Disc (BD) player model, BDP1001, at the 2010 China Content Broadcasting Network Expo (CCBN) in Beijing during March...
Thursday 25 March 2010
Forworld ships sub-US$100 Blu-ray Disc players to Europe vendors
Taiwan-based Forworld Electronics has begun shipping Blu-ray Disc (BD) players at ODM prices of below US$100, lower than the general ODM/OEM quotes of US$110-150, to white-box vendors...
Tuesday 23 March 2010
China market: Demand for Blu-ray Disc reportedly short of expectation
Despite active promotion by the Blu-ray Disc (BD) Association and China-based makers of optical discs and optical disc drives, sales of BD players and BD movies in China have so far...
Monday 22 March 2010
U-Tech negotiating production of Blu-ray movie discs with Bollywood
U-Tech Media, the largest Taiwan-based maker of pre-recorded optical discs, is negotiating with Bollywood movie studios for outsourced Blu-ray Disc (BD) production of Indian movies,...
Wednesday 17 March 2010
Taiwan market: Sony tops 2009 sales of Blu-ray Disc players
In the Taiwan market, about 13,000 Blu-ray Disc (BD) players were sold in 2009 and Sony was the largest vendor with a 50% market share mainly due to price cuts, according to industry...
Tuesday 16 March 2010
Blu-ray Disc player maker Forworld says royalty charge too high
As the BD4C Licensing Group began to charge royalty fees for their patents on the Blu-ray Disc (BD) format on March 1, 2010, Taiwan-based BD player maker Forworld Electronics has...
Tuesday 9 March 2010
OEM quotes for Blu-ray Disc drives fall to US$70-80, say Taiwan makers
Contract-manufacturing quotes for PC-use Blu-ray Disc (BD) drives have dropped to US$70-80 currently, still much higher than about US$20 for DVD drives, according to Taiwan-based...
Friday 5 March 2010
LGE to launch 3D TVs, Blu-ray Disc players in mid-2010
LG Electronics (LGE) is poised for production of 3D LCD TVs and 3D Blu-ray Disc (BD) players and plans to launch them during the 2010 FIFA World Cup or later in July-August, according...
Wednesday 3 March 2010
Taiwan-based U-Tech, Bestdisc see Blu-ray Disc market potential, but no plans to expand capacities
U-Tech Media and Bestdisc Technology have seen pre-recorded Blu-ray Disc (BD) disc shipments increase about 10% of their total shipment volumes, but will not expand production capacity...
Friday 12 February 2010
Taiwan IC design houses to venture into Blu-ray chip market
A number of Taiwan-based IC design houses, including MediaTek, Sunplus Technology and Novatek Microelectronics, will venture into the Blu-ray chip market in 2010, with MediaTek aiming...
Thursday 4 February 2010
CMC expects Blu-ray to contribute 10% of revenues in 2Q10, 20% in 4Q10, says chairman
Taiwan-based blank optical disc maker CMC Magnetics expects shipments of its Blu-ray Disc (BD) discs to account for 10% of its revenues in the second quarter and 20% in the fourth...
Tuesday 26 January 2010
Lite-On IT expects Blu-ray Disc to occupy 10-15% of total ODD capacity
Taiwan-based optical disc drive (ODD) maker Lite-On IT expects Blu-ray Disc (BD) players and PC-use drives to account for 10-15% of its total ODD capacity in 2010, up from less than...
Monday 25 January 2010
Lite-On IT aims at 15% global market share for slim-type ODDs in 2010
Lite-On IT, the largest Taiwan-based maker of half-height (H/H) optical disc drives (ODDs), shipped about 10 million slim-type ODDs for a global market share of 7-8% in 2009 and expects...
Thursday 21 January 2010
CMC monthly Blu-ray Disc capacity reaches three million
Taiwan-based optical disc maker CMC Magnetics has expanded its monthly capacity for Blu-ray Disc (BD) to three million discs, according to industry sources in Taiwan.
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