Taiwan-based blank optical disc makers, mainly Ritek and CMC Magnetics, have slowed down their capacity expansion projects for Blu-ray Disc (BD) due to lower than expected growth...
Despite global Blu-ray disc (BD) sales are rising in 2011, since Taiwan-based BD makers including CMC Magnetics and Ritek, will only have limited capacity growth in 2011, while competitor...
Taiwan-based pre-recorded DVD makers in 2011 are facing strong pressure from increasing raw material costs, with related end sales significantly impacted by online multimedia sharing...
Taiwan-based optical drive maker Quanta Storage, facing declines in both shipments and revenues in early 2011, has turned conservative about its performance in the future and is also...
Blu-ray disc player sales in Taiwan may surpass 100,000 units in 2011 as players such as Toshiba, Sony, LG, Panasonic and Sharp all launched models with prices less than US$100 in...
The massive earthquake in Japan has impacted the supply chain of Blu-ray Disc (BD) players. Blue laser diodes used in BD players' optical pick-up head units (OPU) are mainly produced...
Supply of Sony's Blu-ray drive pick-up heads is facing danger of seeing shortages as the plants of Sony Shiraishi Semiconductor, a Blu-ray drive pick-up head manufacturing subsidiary...
Shipments of Blu-ray disc players in Taiwan in 2010 reached only around 30,000 units, accounting for less than 5% of the total media player shipments of 630,000 units; however, sources...
Quotes for white-box Blu-ray Disc (BD) loaders, main bodies including BD chips and pick-up heads for being assembled into BD players or PC-use drives, have dropped to below US$20,...
The global demand for blank Blu-ray Discs (BD) in 2010 was estimated at 113 million units, up 156.82% from 2009, and is projected to be continue growing to 412 million discs in 2013,...
A fire broke out at optical disc maker Ritek's plants in Hsinchu, Taiwan before the Lunar New Year holidays. Despite the company announcing that the fire would not impact its operations,...
Taiwan-based maker of pick up heads (PUH) for optical drives, Topray Technology, saw its revenues reach NT$1.11 billion (US$38.2 million), up 41.36% from NT$784 million in 2009, according...
Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions (PLDS), a joint venture of Lite-On IT and Philips will exhibit three Liteon Blu-ray Disc (BD) drives, Plextor BD drives and SSDs at the upcoming...
Taiwan's largest optical disc maker CMC Magnetics, in view of relatively high gross margins for Blu-ray discs, will increase output and expects the corresponding proportion of total...
