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Panasonic pushes more resources to DVD-RAM: recorders expected to outsell players by '06.(Headliners)(Matsushita Electric Corporation of America)

Video Business, October, 2004 by Gallo, Eliza

TORRANCE, CALIF. -- Panasonic is devoting a facility here to the production of rewriteable DVD-RAM discs, in the belief that an abundant supply of blank media will help fuel sales of DVD-RAM hardware. In September, the factory became the first in North America to produce blank discs for DVD-RAM, the leading rewriteable format.

An October report by research firm Understanding & Solutions predicts that sales of consumer DVD recorders worldwide will exceed sales of DVD players by 2006 and cites DVD-RAM as the leading format in terms of DVD recorder sales. Some 1.8 million DVD recorders of all formats will be sold in the U.S. this year, predicts Panasonic Disc Manufacturing president Mark Horiki, with the figure climbing to 4 million by the...

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