With Japanese manufactucturers focusing on Blu-ray and HD DVD drives, Taiwanese manufacturers expected them to place OEM orders for slim DVD burners. Unfortunately, due to the low demand for slim-type Blu-ray and HD DVD writers, these orders will most likely be delayed.
NEC, HLDS (Hitachi-LG Data Storage) and Matsushita Electric Industrial, the top three Japan-based suppliers of slim-type DVD burners for use in notebook PCs, are likely to push back the release of OEM orders to Taiwanese makers, mainly Quanta Storage and Lite-On IT, because the global demand for slim-type next-generation blue-laser burners will not take off this year as originally expected, according to industry sources in Taiwan.
Japanese suppliers of half-height (H/H) DVD burners (for use in desktop PCs) have increasingly focused their self-production on Blu-ray Disc (BD) and/or HD DVD burners and released OEM orders for DVD burners to Taiwanese makers, and the same situation was originally expected to happen to slim-type DVD burners, the sources indicated.
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