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posted on 10 June 2008 09:23

German Blu-ray disk machine seller Singulus has announced that orders for its dual-layer Blu-ray disk-making machines are ratcheting up faster than did orders for DVD-making machines eleven years ago.

Singulus received 21 orders for such machines in the first three months of this year and more orders have been received since then. The company is the European Blu-ray disk machine market leader since taking over the Swiss Oerlikon Balzers concern earlier this year.

Stefan A. Baustert, Singulus Technologies' CEO, said: “This means that the orders for Blu-ray in the first year of the dual layer technology already by far exceeded the volume at the start of the DVD eleven years ago with 17 machines. It is also very promising that recently the first Dual Layer Blu-ray disc machine was accepted by one of our key customers in the US.”

Dual-layer Blu-ray disks hold 50GB.

With Blu-ray player prices falling, more titles available and the BD-Live function coming into play the omens for Blu-ray look good.

^{[Paul Roberts, news editor.]}