The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) is the industry consortium that develops and licenses Blu-ray Disc technology and is responsible for establishing format standards and promoting business opportunities for Blu-ray Disc. The BDA is divided into three levels of membership: the board of directors, contributors, and general members. The "Blu-ray Disc founder group" was started on 20 May 2002 by nine electronic companies:

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, Hitachi,

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and

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. In order to enable more companies to participate, it announced in May 2004 that it would form the Blu-ray Disc Association, which was inaugurated on 4 October 2004.

Members

Board

The board members as of November 2016 are: *

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* DTS *

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* Intel Corporation * Koninklijke Philips *

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* Mitsubishi Electric * Oracle Corporation *

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* Dolby Laboratories * Vantiva *

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Contributors

The contributors as of December 2017 are: * BluFocus Inc. * CESI Technology Co. Ltd. * China Hualu group Co., Ltd. *

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, Inc. *

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* Irdeto USA, Inc * JVC KENWOOD Corporation * Memory-Tech Holdings Inc * Scenarist Inc * Testronic Laboratories, Inc. * sMedio, Inc. *

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Electric Co., Ltd. *

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IT Corporation *

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Inc *

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Timeline of major changes to membership

* On 3 October 2004

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announced that it was joining the BDA, and on 29 July 2005 the studio officially announced its support for Blu-ray Disc. * On 10 March 2005 Apple Computer announced its support for Blu-ray Disc and joined the BDA. * On 31 August 2006 Sun Microsystems joined the BDA. * On 30 August 2007, during the IFA Consumer Electronics Fair 2007, Acer and China Hualu joined BDA, and a few days later Acer also announced that they joined HD DVD North American Promotion Group.

Timeline of major events and announcements involving members

* On 30 June 2004

, a founder member of the Blu-ray Disc Association, became the second manufacturer after Sony to launch a Blu-ray Disc consumer product into the Japanese market. The DMR-E700BD recorder supported writing to existing DVD formats, and became the first unit to read and write to dual-layer Blu-ray Discs with a maximum capacity of 50 gigabytes. The launch price of the recorder was US$2780. * On 8 December 2004

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(and its home video division,

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and

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announced their support for the Blu-ray Disc format. * On 28 July 2005

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, part of Mitsubishi Chemical Media, announced its support for Blu-ray Disc and

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storage format development. * On 17 August 2005 Lions Gate Home Entertainment announced it would release its content using the Blu-ray Disc format. * On 7 September 2005

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confirmed their next generation of optical drives will support Blu-ray Disc and

discs. * On 2 October 2005 Both

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and

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announced they would endorse Blu-ray Disc, while still supplying content on the rival HD DVD — in order to give consumers a choice. * On 20 October 2005

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announced they would release titles on the Blu-ray Disc format, in addition to HD DVD Video. * On 1 November 2005

announced it would release its content using the Blu-ray Disc format. * On 9 November 2005

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924 ...

announced it would support Blu-ray Disc, and plans to have titles available when Blu-ray Disc is launched. * On 19 November 2005, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced that they finished editing the first Blu-ray Disc, a full-length movie, '' Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle''. The disc uses MPEG-2 compression at a resolution of 1920×1080 (it was not announced whether it will be

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) and claims to use a menu interface that would succeed current DVD-Video interfaces. * On 4 January 2006, at the Consumer Electronics Show

and

announced their first Blu-ray Disc players for the U.S. market. Samsung announced the BD-P1000, retailing for US$1000 and sporting HDMI output with backward support for DVD formats (DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+RW, and DVD+R), while Philips announced the BDP-9000. Philips also announced their all-in-one PC TripleWriter Blu-ray Disc drive and range of Blu-ray Disc media would arrive in 2nd quarter of 2006. * On 7 March 2006 Sony announced it would be shipping rewritable single-layer 25 GB 2x speed Blu-ray Discs to Europe, with dual-layer discs arriving later in the year. * On 16 March 2006 Sony announced a Blu-ray Disc player, the first VAIO desktop PC with a Blu-ray Disc recorder, and a Blu-ray Disc internal PC drive would be released in the summer of 2006. The VAIO PC would be shipped with a free 25 GB Blank BD-RE (rewritable) Blu-ray Disc worth $25

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. * On 10 April 2006 TDK announced in a press release that it began shipping 25 GB BD-R and BD-RE media (at prices of $19.99

and US$24.99 respectively). TDK also announced that it would be releasing 50 GB BD-R and BD-RE media later this year (at prices of US$47.99 and $59.99 respectively). * On 16 May 2006 Sony announced its first VAIO notebook computer that will include a built-in Blu-ray Disc recorder with a 17" WUXGA display capable of displaying 1080p (at a price of US$3499.99). The VAIO shipped in June including software to play Blu-ray Disc movies and an HDMI-A input for other HD devices, and that the

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home video game console would be using the Blu-Ray Disc format. The console's predecessor, PlayStation 2, uses DVDs for

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. * On 17 May 2006

shipped BDR-101A, a PC-based Blu-ray Disc recorder drive. * On 15 June 2006, Samsung announced the industry's first BD-P1000 player had begun shipping to U.S. retail stores for availability on June 25, 2006. * On 18 July 2006

announced that it was shipping its ScratchGuard coated BD-R and BD-RE Blu-ray Disc recordable and rewritable discs to stores in Europe, with discs priced between £20 and £24 (GBP). * On 16 August 2006 Sony announced shipment of 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray Disc recordable discs with a suggested retail price of $48. * On 4 January 2008,

announces that it would abandon HD-DVD support by the end of May. * On 5 January 2008,

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announced it would be following Warner's lead, backing Blu-ray exclusively. * On 11 February 2008,

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announced to phase out HD DVDs and begin to carry only Blu-ray Discs. * On 19 February 2008,

announced it would be releasing movies on Blu-ray Disc format making it the last Hollywood major motion picture studio to release titles on the Blu-ray Disc format. * On 20 February 2008,

announced it would be releasing movies on Blu-ray Disc format. * On 21 February 2008, Paramount Pictures announced it would be releasing movies on Blu-ray Disc format. * On 21 February 2008,

DreamWorks SKG DreamWorks may refer to: * DreamWorks Pictures, an American film production company of Amblin ** DreamWorks Television, an American television production company and division of the film studio ** DreamWorks Records, an American record label and ...

announced it would be following Paramount and Amblin's lead, it would abandon HD-DVD support by the end of March. * On 15 August 2008, Microsoft added Blu-ray native support to their operating systems

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and

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. * On 21 May 2013, Microsoft announced that the

Xbox One The Xbox One is a home video game console developed by Microsoft. Announced in May 2013, it is the successor to Xbox 360 and the third base console in the Xbox series of video game consoles. It was first released in North America, parts of ...

home video game console would be using the Blu-ray Disc format. The console's predecessor,

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, uses DVDs for

and supports an optional external

drive for films (which has been discontinued in February 2008)

References

External links

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