Blu-Ray Redux: Sony and NEC Joint Venture

By Rod Edwards on February-27-2006 in News and Opinions

Here’s a quick one from Engadget: Sony and NEC have and optical drive joint venture underway, slated to get rolling this spring. The key finding here is that Sony has a 5% edge in the JV, implying that it will be to manufacture BR drives exclusively - which takes a major hardware manufacturer out of the running for HD-DVD production.