Sony DADC to expand Indiana Blu-ray manufacturing plant

Terre Haute, Indiana is home to Sony's only Blu-ray Disc manufacturing facility in the entire United States, and while just north of 1,100 people are employed there now, another 85 will soon be joining the staff as finalized expansion plans are hammered down. The $113 million effort will add to its nearly 1 million-square-foot facility, though we aren't given specifics regarding how many more discs the plant will soon crank out. We hear you can wear funny masks there, though.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2008 2:22PM]

It's currently 21 going to be 47....... And thats the total between Japn, Austria, and Indiana

"By October, the three facilities combined will have more than doubled its Blu-ray disc manufacturing capacity of 21 million discs per month to 47 million discs per month, according to Sony."

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2008 3:00PM]

Perhaps I am missing the joke but what is Jason doing in the picture ?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2008 4:23PM]

Jason is there because today is Friday the 13th.. jeez

[RockinOscar Posted Jun 13th 2008 5:59PM]

JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2008 3:09PM]

Check a calendar, he has been all over the sight today, increasing my lust for blood and barely clothed coed camp counselors

[therpham Posted Jun 13th 2008 3:30PM]

Terre Haute represent!

That's actually in a pretty cool area because there are a bunch of creepy industrial buildings. I didn't know it was Sony's only place in the US that made Blu-Ray discs, though. That's kind of cool.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2008 4:25PM]

It's actually pretty worrying.. their production capacities are nowhere near mainstream.

This is where HD DVD had a huge edge too.. over 200 replication lines were already ready for HD DVD production..

One of the reasons we will be waiting for a while for Blu-Ray to really go mainstream.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2008 4:38PM]

@ NFINITY
"It's actually pretty worrying.. their production capacities are nowhere near mainstream."

Uh, yeah, maybe that's cause BD is not even close to being mainstream yet??? That's why it's called ramping up. It doesn't work the other way around.

[DrXym Posted Jun 13th 2008 3:34PM]

I wonder if disks walk out of the door in a place like that.

Still it's yet another indicator that blu ray is ramping up in a big way.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2008 4:14PM]

"OH YEEEAHZ, TEH JASON SIGNALZ TEH DEATH OF BLUEZ RAYS..."

- Quote from (Insert your favorite Blu-Ray Hater here)

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2008 7:19PM]

Bah, at first glance I thought it said Indiana Jones Blu-ray. Way to disappoint!

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2008 8:12PM]

Wow, I'm excited