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Toshiba may make Blu-ray drives

posted on 13 May 2008 11:22

Endorsement of a sort

TSST, a Toshiba and Samsung joint venture, is expected to start making Blu-ray drives soon.

TSST (Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology) is a joint venture intended to produce high-definition optical disk drives. Samsung was associated with the Blu-ray camp and Toshiba with HD-DVD. It has not yet started volume production of drives. Now that Blu-ray has emerged as the hig-definition optical drive format du jour the expectation is that TSST will start manufacturing and shipping them.

Blu-ray disk multi-media software may be included with such drives according to Jau Huang, the chairman of CyberLink, a producer of such software.

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^{[Paul Roberts, news editor.]}

tags: Blu-ray