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Sony's Largest PlayStation Disc Plant is Reassigning Staff to Work on Micro Optics. (www.vgchartz.com)
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[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 19 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Sony is handing over its home entertainment hardware business over to TCL, meaning PlayStation would be their only product with an optical drive.

The market for optical disk manufacturing has contracted greatly, and DADC is down to one plant from around a dozen in 2010.

Disc authoring and duplication requires the game to go gold earlier, and this time allows for leaks and bad word of mouth.

There’s simply more money to be made with SAAS.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

There's also a positive environmental impact but I don't think they care about it.

[–] Australis13@fedia.io 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, that makes more sense. At least they're retraining the staff, but I have to wonder if they offered the factory as part of the sale to TCL (If they did, why did TCL decline? If not, why not, if they're now needing to retrain and repurpose the plant?)

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

No, DADC is not a part of the home entertainment business. And TCL wouldn’t have a use for it anyway. It’s a precision optical engineering business, and micro lenses use a similar manufacturing process to optical discs so transition is fairly straightforward and has been underway for a few years already.

[–] Australis13@fedia.io 2 points 8 hours ago

Thanks for the explanation, much appreciated.