According to an Associated Press report, Sony Pictures is due to lay off 450 people due to a fall in DVD sales. These layoffs are said to represent about a 6.5% reduction in the 6,800-strong workforce at Sony Pictures.
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"Our industry is affected by two things: it's affected by the economy, of course, and it's affected by technology," co-chair Amy Pascal (pictured) was quoted as saying.
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Connected BD taking market share
Friday, 19 February 2010
High-volume shipments of Blu-ray players, most of which feature network connectivity, are finally making inroads into the broader disc player and recorder market. According to the report from In-Stat, by 2013, Blu-ray player shipments will still
lag slightly behind the 90 million DVD player
unit shipments.
However, higher average selling prices will put Blu-ray player revenue at over
four times more
than DVD player revenue.
"In North America, significant price drops of Blu-ray players drove unit shipments to
triple
in 2009," said Michelle Abraham, In-Stat analyst.
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Europe is the largest revenue market for Blu-ray players.
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Markus Ehret, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Senior Manager, PwC Advisory
PricewaterhouseCoopers AG
Markus Ehret verantwortet für die Branche Technology, IT / IT Services die
Mandate in allen Strategie- und Corporate Finance Themen in Deutschland.
Sein Fokus liegt insbesondere auf Themen wie Strategische Ausrichtung,
M&A-Transaktionen, Carve-Out, Unternehmensfinanzierung, sowie Unternehmenssteuerung.
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Seine Ausbildung als Diplom
Ökonom erlangte er an den Universitäten Schloss Hohenheim, Stuttgart,
und University of Massachusetts, Amherst USA. Danach war er als Managementberater
im Controlling und in der Corporate Finance Beratung tätig.
A Screen Digest report indicates that the number of Blu-ray Discs purchased by consumers in France and Germany grew by 73% in 2009.
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According to Screen Digest, in the third year since the launch of BD in Europe, standard-definition DVD remains by far the preferred consumer format, accounting for 95% of all discs sold.
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In the third year of the DVD (2000) the overall conversion rate from VHS to DVD was 15%.
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By comparison, in 2000 16 titles sold more than 20% on DVD, of which five achieved over 40% of sales on the new format.
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by Mark Hachman
In the ongoing battle for content, Sony said Tuesday that it had locked in the five top studios to supply HD content to the PlayStation Network.
At launch, the content will be available in the U.S. only, with plans to launch soon in the U.K., France, Germany, and Spain, Sony said.
Sony claimed that "all" of the top studios now offer HD content via the PSN. The five studios announced Tuesday are: 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros.
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Microservice in Brazil, the first optical disc producer in South America, is now ready to roll with BD production. The company decided in October last year to invest in a Singulus Bluline for pre-recorded BD production and the system has successfully passed its final acceptance test and all verifications
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Kommentar:
Anwell hat heute seine Sunlite-Maschine zur Fertigung von Solarzellen offiziell in Produktion genommen. Wer auf Solar, Optical-Disc setzen möchte, sollte sich doch mal Anwell näher anschauen...Anwell hat auf jeden FALL eine eindrucksvollere Historie (Milestone) als Singulus! Zudem hat Anwell nun schon eine komplette Produktionslinie zur Herstellung von Solarzellen in Produktion, wovon Singulus noch lange träumen wird!
Franky Fan lässt grüssen ;-)
Singapore, 29 March 2010 - Anwell Technologies Limited (“Anwell” or “Group”), a global
supplier of advanced manufacturing equipment and process technologies for optical disc,
OLED and solar industries is pleased to announce its official entry into the solar industry as it
begins mass production of amorphous silicon (“a-Si”) thin film solar panels using its in-house
developed Sunlite turnkey production line.
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“Given the strong governmental push for solar installations and heavy reliance on imports of
European countries, we believe it is an ideal market for us to sell our solar panels.
The German distribution centre
we set up in late 2009, has already
paved the way for this growth.
The marketing contacts and channels established over the last few months will allow us to
immediately partake in this huge demand for solar panels in Europe market.”
- Franky Fan, Chairman & CEO
Mitsubishi produziert beschreibbare Blu-ray auf eigenen Anlagen
Kommentar: Mitsubishi produziert beschreibbare Blu-ray auf selbst konstruierten Anlagen in Singapore!
Mitsubishi to produce recordable BD in Singapore
Thursday, 29 April 2010
Japan's Mitsubishi Chemical Infonics (MCI) has announced that it will produce Blu-ray recordable discs from its Singapore manufacturing base. The firm is installing its in-house designed state-of-the-art Blu-ray Disc manufacturing line there, according to a report in China News.
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Bis zum Jahr 2020 werden die Menschen in den USA mehr Zeit mit dem Anschauen von Videos über das Internet verbringen als mit "herkömmlichem" Fernsehen. Zu diesem für die TV-Anstalten alarmierenden Vorhersage kommen die Analysten von "The Diffusion Group", kurz TDG.
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Laut TDG ist die durchschnittliche Zeit, die die fernsehende US-Bevölkerung mit dem
Betrachten von Online-Videos verbracht hat, von 2008 auf 2009 um 52% gestiegen sei.
In den nächsten fünf bis sieben Jahren werde sich dieser Trend noch weiter verstärken, da immer mehr TV-Geräte fürs Abrufen von Videos per Internet genutzt werden könnten.
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Anwell: US$100 million "MOU" for pre-recorded BD manufacturing equipment
Singapore, 22 July 2010 - Anwell Technologies Limited (“Anwell” or “Group”), a global
supplier of advanced manufacturing equipment and process technologies for the optical disc,
OLED and solar industries
is pleased to announce that it has entered into a memorandum of
understanding (“MOU”) with a global media manufacturer to deliver a significant number of
pre-recorded Blu-ray Disc (“BD”) manufacturing equipment.
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“We are very pleased to sign this MOU with such an established customer and appreciate their confidence in our R&D capabilities.
With a potential revenue of over US$100 million upon
completion of equipment sales, we are beginning to reap the rewards for the substantial effort we have invested into developing cutting edge BD manufacturing solutions.[...]
Layoffs imminent at Sony pictures
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