Blu-ray Disc Association
The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) is responsible for establishing format standards and promoting and further developing business opportunities for Blu-ray Disc.
History
The "Blu-ray Disc Association" was founded in 2002 by nine leading electronic companies: Matsushita, Pioneer, Philips, Thomson, LG Electronics, Hitachi, Sharp, Samsung and Sony as contrast to the DVD Forum. Spearheaded by Sony Corporation on February 19th 2002 the companies announced [1] they were the "Founders" of the Blu-ray Disc and later changed their name to the "Blu-ray Disc Association" in order to achieve more companies joining their development. Some examples of companies that signed in include Apple, TDK, Dell, Hewlett Packard, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. and Universal Music Group. At the moment there are more than 250 members and supporters of the Association.
Its board of directors consists of:
- Apple Inc.
- Buena Vista Home Entertainment
- Dell
- Hewlett Packard
- Hitachi
- LG Electronics
- Mitsubishi Electric
- Panasonic (Matsushita Electric)
- Pioneer Corporation
- Royal Philips Electronics
- Samsung Electronics
- Sharp Corporation
- Sony Corporation
- Sun Microsystems
- TDK Corporation
- Thomson
- Twentieth Century Fox
- Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group
- Warner Home Video Inc.
External links
- Blu-ray Disc Association
- Full list of supporting companies
- The Authoritative Blu-ray Disc (BD) FAQ by Hugh Bennett
- ^ "Large Capacity Optical Disc Video Recording Format "Blu-ray Disc" Established". 2007. Retrieved 2007-02-05.