Thomson announcement on HD DVD & Blu-ray disc availability
This is true not only for blank media, but also for pressed discs in the home entertainment market. It’s useless start to sell standalone players if titles are not available. And it’s here that Thomson will give its contribution, announcing the availability of HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc manufacturing and distribution capabilities:
 Thomson (Euronext:18453) (NYSE:TMS) today announced that the next-generation DVD manufacturing and distribution capabilities of its Technicolor Home Entertainment Services business are in place and operational. The company’s replication lines for HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc have been in operation since September, 2005 and early November, 2005, respectively.
… Technicolor Home Entertainment Services manufactured and shipped the first titles for the retail launch of HD DVD, including the first shipment of Universal Studios Home Entertainment’s “Serenity,” on April 12, 2006. For the launch of HD DVD, Technicolor manufactured and distributed numerous Universal Studios Home Entertainment titles, including “Doom,” “Apollo 13,” “Jarhead,” “Cinderella Man,” “Assault on Precinct 13,” “The Chronicles of Riddick,” “Van Helsing,” “U-571,” and “The Bourne Supremacy.” Since the consumer introduction of HD DVD, the company has also replicated and distributed other HD DVD titles for Universal, including “Happy Gilmore,” “The Rundown,” “Friday Night Lights,” and “Pitch Black.” |
Also the Blu-ray sector will be soon filled with titles, so the only thing that the consumer has to wait is a substantial fall of prices, both for standalone devices and for PC drives. Here at CD Freaks, we are very interested in the new generation burners.
More details can be read here