Sony announced that production of 25-gig Blu-ray discs would be underway at its Shizuoka, Japan plant in February, with disc production ramping up at the Terre Haute, Indiana and Salzburg, Austria plants in May and June, respectively. Aiming for a target of five million units per month for the U.S. and 2.5 million units per month for Europe and Japan. The 25-gig Blu-ray disc is single-layer, Sony will also be producing the 50-gig dual-layer discs this year. In the announcement, Sony Executive Vice President Bob Hurley said this: "We will support all of our customers during the launches of BD video and PlayStation 3 in the coming year and beyond."

Now, about that PlayStation 3 news we've been waiting for....

Sony DADC Announces Global Blu-ray Disc Roll-out [PR]

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