Sony doesn’t have manufacturing capacity to meet Blu-ray demand
- April 8th, 2008
- 6 Comments
Despite Blu-ray’s utterly devastating victory earlier this year, Sony may be in a spot of trouble. Seems the company has a bit of a problem manufacturing the discs (I swear I’ve heard that before), and since it’s the the biggest producer of The Blu (that’s how cool kids say Blu-ray), it could be the biggest obstacle to the format’s success. Not that that really matters, since in five years we’ll have a new format.
Demand for The Blu is expected to JUMP this year to 48 million units; Sony only has the capacity to manufacture 38 million, and that’s after an upgrade to its facilities.
And while I’m thoroughly post-disc (technically), I did have my eye on the PS3, more or less because I could use it as a Blu-ray player. But then I heard the system doesn’t output DTS-HD, so what’s the point?
m (Who am I?)
4 months ago
Hmm license to toshiba and let them manufacture disks also.. they could recoup some losses and use those hd-dvd factories. I can’t imagine a great deal of changeover would be needed
bill d. (Who am I?)
4 months ago
It will be getting the dts-hd go here for sony article
http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/04/08/interview-with-sce-engineers-reveal-bd-live-firmware-plans/
And also how is it that you don’t demand the same audio quality from your downloads. I am yet to hear of a download with uncompressed audio. The people who are downloading have crap tv’s. Anyone with a hd tv that has seen a downloaded movie knows that it is unbearable to watch.
Nicholas Deleon (Who am I?)
4 months ago
Buying and downloading are two different things. If I buy a Blu-ray disc, then I fully expect to be able to play uncompressed audio. I had heard, I think on Leo Laporte’s show, that the PS3 was unable to playback DTS-HD and that it was a hardware issue. A firmware update wouldn’t help there. If that turns out to be different, then all the better for us consumers. Oh, and most Blu-ray rips have DTS 5.1 audio, so it’s not that bad.
-na
Phil (Who am I?)
4 months ago
Research is your friend. It can stop you from looking silly when you write an article.
Josh (Who am I?)
4 months ago
Good article but the PS3 will have DTS-HD soon. So go out and buy one. :) Its the best system and blu-ray player on the market.
Npoleon_Ist (Who am I?)
4 months ago
hey kid,
there’s no need for a compressed DTS-HD when you have the uncompressed LPCM-HD available on the system… :D