ngg12345 on 23 April 2007
According to bloomberg.com, they had an article that talked with a sony represenative. It stated that the blu-ray production was able to increase rapidly, which means that the production will not cost as much money. The prices of blu-ray have a huge possiblility to drop significantly due to factories able to churn out more monthly.
"At present 1.7 million laser diodes are manufactured with Sony Shiroishi Semiconductor. Production could increase Sony according to own data to monthly 5 millions, if it requires the market situation.
Takashi Uehara, a speaker for Sony, stresses that the company has enough capacity blue laser diodes for the PlayStation3 to make Blu-ray Player available and Blu-ray recorders."
