Sony DADC 50GB Blu-ray production underway
By Richard Lawler 
posted Nov 22nd 2006 11:54AM
posted Nov 22nd 2006 11:54AM
The last time we checked in on Sony's Terra Haute, IN-based Blu-ray plant dual-layer 50GB discs were still nowhere to be seen, but the company announced recently it now has 6 50GB production lines up and running and is ramping up to produce 60,000 discs per day. According to the Executive Vice President production is "meeting expectations", and not a minute too soon. With the PlayStation 3 finally here and the BDP-S1 coming... some day if Blu-ray is going to win the format war they'll certainly need more than 25GB discs to do it. With over 130 BD titles mastered, including some dual-layer releases even though 50GB is late to the party, it's earlier than some anticipated.[Via HDBlog.net]
yay!
About time.
Heheee :) 60 000 per day. Cool :)
I'm not sure if this news is anything to be proud of (for the Blu-ray side) since it's a necessity in order to compete with HDDVD.
I’m also not sure why Blu-ray isn’t using the more advanced codec, which would not necessitate this 50GB need, in order to properly compete with HDDVD.
With all due respect, you are crazy-late with this story, Engadget.
This story, from Oct. 9 (about a month and a half ago) was all over the net about this same topic.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061009/NLETTER09/61009029/-1/ZONES04
"Click" the first dual-layer Blu-ray movie produced at that factory, was in retail stores in early October as well.