Singulus Blu-ray duplicator sales beat predictions
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
CharlieX @ Jul 7th 2008 6:39PM
AH! go fight crime with all the spare time you have! there are children who are being sold crack and burglars and corporate malfeasance! You obviously have the tenacity to take them all down!
now shoo!
Mr. E @ Jul 7th 2008 7:50PM
This is excellent news, because it means that Blu-ray will be less replication constrained during the 2008 holiday season than initially feared. I'm hoping they will need every bit of that extra capacity when the big Blu-ray push begins in the fall.
DVD4ME @ Jul 7th 2008 8:24PM
At this rate, BR will have caught UMD by 2012
J.Goodwin @ Jul 7th 2008 8:27PM
Actually, they're probably shipping these units out the door as fast as they're able to produce them.
This is not a large company, and even if it were, these things take a lot of labor to produce.
XeroState @ Jul 7th 2008 10:17PM
"The speed is 4 secs for single layer BD and 6 secs for BD DL50. Laughable. Today we have DVDs being replicated with "home business" replicators at the same speed. Not multimillion dollar machines"
That is the stupidest argument I have ever heard. A Single layer BD disc holds more data than a dual layer DVD yet you are comparing the write times of the two? Obviously the DVD's will write faster, its common sense.. then again apparently not as you are arguing the point. Can these "home business" replicators do 25GB's in 4 secs? No, they are doing 9.. not even half of what the BD ones are doing. You can argue things, but this, is unarguable. More data takes more time. How long did the original DVD producers take to do a mere 4.5GB's?
Shawn Parr @ Jul 7th 2008 11:28PM
"The speed is 4 secs for single layer BD and 6 secs for BD DL50. Laughable. Today we have DVDs being replicated with "home business" replicators at the same speed."
You do realize this isn't a burner right? This creates stamped/molded disks. 6 seconds to mold, cool, metallize, wet-emboss, lacquer and UV cure a dual layer disk is fairly impressive. Their DVD9 replicators take 2.3 seconds, so while it takes just under 3 times as long, they still can output fairly well. Also realize this includes
You can believe what you want about the format. Maybe DVD will hang around for the next 10-20 years, maybe BR will eventually takes its place, who knows. But making completely irrelevant comparisons between a home duplicator (which is a multi-function burner) and a manufacturing device which works on a completely different scale just makes you look like a raving monkey.
To see a bit of what it does: http://www.singulus.de/en/produkte/optical-disc/replikationslinien/bluline-ii-main-components.html
WebDev511 @ Jul 8th 2008 1:05AM
It rained today. The ground got wet.
Blu-Ray wins the format war. Blu-Ray replication equipment sales increase.
Not much difference between the two, eh?
DrXym @ Jul 8th 2008 3:51AM
As usual Nfinity spouts a bunch of lies. Singulus have orders for 31 machines this half year alone. As for the specs of the machine, those 31 machines even with 50% downtime would be capable of pushing out nearly 1/4 million DL disks every day.
Michael @ Jul 8th 2008 8:35AM
maybe im being stupid but what is the benifit of making discs with massive machines compared to doing it at home on a computer obviously professional is going to be way better but how much better benefit do u get?
Jimmy @ Jul 8th 2008 11:49AM
Michael,
A burner and a stamper use two different technologies. This machine is a stamper.
In a burner, the laser is slightly stronger than a reader and is capable of melting a special coating on the inside of a Recordable disk.
The "pits" created on a DVDR or BDR are different than those of stamped disk. This is why many older DVD players would not play burned DVDs.
Also the life of a burned disk can be counted in years but a stamped disk is generally considered to be decades. However, we do not yet know the lifespan of blu-ray disks.
Stamped disks also have a pressed/screened finish on one side. This is not only for marketing purposes but helps put a protective backing on the disk.
Finally, I will borrow from Shaun's post above: "This creates stamped/molded disks. 6 seconds to mold, cool, metallize, wet-emboss, lacquer and UV cure a dual layer disk is fairly impressive."
SimbaDogg @ Jul 8th 2008 4:26PM
i really wish there were terms and conditions for signing up and posting on this board. then we could effectively make a push to ban nfinity. has anyone EVER seen him make a post on engadget, engadghet hd, joystiq, autoblog or any of the other networks which wasn't anti blu-ray and/or pro hd-dvd/dvd. to say its gotten old would be an understatement, he has become nothing more than a rebel rouser who is quick to get good topics off topic in a big hurry. instead of talking about a topic, we always talk about how stupid he is. please engadget...bring on the TOS so we can finally ban his IP
neutron @ Jul 12th 2008 1:18PM
BR is the HD radio of the video world.
Those orders for industrial presses haven’t translated into a lower disc price for the consumer or greater sales for Blu-Gay movies as a matter of fact the price went up $10 after the format war was “won”. It took BR Two years to release 526 non-selling titles, SDVD had released 4000 titles within it’s first two years. SDVD’s first title was released in the US March 1997. Not to mention BR sales are very poor most BR advocate point to the PS3 as their savior but there is evidence that while the game attach rate is 5 per unit the movie attach rate is less than 1. One movie per player!?!?!? That better be one hell of good movie!
The game attach rate for the PS3 system is comparable to the other systems on the market while the BR movie attach rate is less than one per player!
“As part of a wide-ranging meeting with GameStop's management, Janco Partners' Mike Hickey discussed why the Wii and PS3's 5-game-per-console attach rates are still behind the Xbox 360's 8.8, suggesting that Guitar Hero and a theorized Rock Band release for the Wii will increase high-margin sales for the retailer.”
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17099
“However while one Sony spokesperson from SCEE confirmed that Blu-ray was a success, a spokesman for Sony Pictures confirmed that PS3 gamers weren't impressed with the new movie format.
"3.3 millions discs have sold to date with 1.4 million of those this quarter", the spokesman confirmed, suggesting that the pick up rate is less that one per Blu-ray player sold (Sony announced that it has sold 5 million PS3 consoles in Europe).
The comments come just days after the NPD Group retail sales tracking data show sales of Blu-ray standalone players have decreased drastically since the beginning of the year”.
http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/14455/15479/sony-ps3-blu-ray-poor-sales.phtml