Blu-ray Disc Association
Blu-ray Disc Association ( BDA for short ) is an amalgamation of companies that develop and market the Blu-ray Disc storage medium .
history
In February 2002, nine leading electronics companies, namely Matsushita, Pioneer, Philips, Thomson, LG Electronics, Hitachi, Sharp, Samsung and Sony formed the Blu-ray Disc Founders . At a later date the association was renamed the Blu-ray Disc Association . They formed the counterpart to the DVD Forum that decided to develop the HD DVD .
In 2003 and early 2004, four other companies joined the nine founders: Mitsubishi Electric, Dell, HP and TDK.
In order to get even more members and supporters, the Blu-ray Association was finally founded in 2004 , which today has over 250 members.
The board of directors
The Blu-ray Association board of directors consists of the following companies:
- Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
- Hewlett-Packard Company
- Hitachi Ltd.
- Intel Corporation
- LG Electronics Inc.
- Microsoft Corp.
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Oracle Corporation
- Panasonic Corporation
- Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV
- Pioneer Corporation
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Sharp Corporation
- Sony Corporation
- TDK Corporation
- Technicolor
- 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment
- The Walt Disney Studios
- Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Web links
- blu-raydisc.com - Official website of the Blu-ray Disc Association
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of supporting companies on www.blu-raydisc.com. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 24, 2015 ; Retrieved April 22, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
