Panasonic Begins Blu-Ray Production

magicchex writes "Panasonic has announced that they have begun pilot Blu-Ray production of dual-layer 50GB discs in their Torrance, California factory. They claim to already have an 80% success rate in production. Engadget and The Register, among other, have also reported on this." From the Register: "Matsushita's Panasonic subsidiary has retooled its US Blu-ray Disc (BD) production line to offer not only 25GB single-layer discs but also 50GB dual-layer media ... Panasonic's plant, located in Torrance, California, is still in the pilot stage, but the company claimed it is already punching out BDs with a yield of over 80 per cent - so it has to bin fewer than 20 per cent of the discs it produces, which seems rather a lot in the context of a low-cost, mass-market medium."

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Re:DRM?

[tomstdenis]

What's the point?

It's how you convince retarded media execs to buy into the technology. They're so far removed from reality that they think they're better off with some invasive non-functional DRM protecting their interests.

I suggest anyone who questions this to take a few trips around the country [and/or overseas]. See the retarded jackasses talking loudly [and mindlessly] on their cell phones in the terminal? Those are "suits".

They're useless people. Their job is to make a lot of noise, smoke and mirrors to increase sales or other "profits" to jack up their usefulness as a living being.

So the media execs who agree to this don't understand technology and think only a "criminal mastermind" would be able to circumvent it.

Tom