List of optical disc manufacturers

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This aims to be a complete list of optical disc manufacturers, including pre-recorded/pressed/replicated, record-able/write-once and re-writable discs. This list is not necessarily complete or up to date - if you see a manufacturer that should be here but is not (or one that should not be here but is), please update the page accordingly. This list only lists manufacturers - not brands. For example, many Maxell DVDs are made by Ritek or CMC magnetics. Many companies use equipment from Singulus Technologies. This list includes both CD, DVD and Blu-ray recordable and rewritable media manufacturers (like Ritek), and disc replicators (companies that replicate discs with pre-recorded content, like Sony DADC).


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  • Discmakers
  • Daxon Technology
  • Discovery Systems (Defunct)[3]

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  • EMI (sold to Cinram)

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  • Gigastorage Corporation[7]

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  • Imation (stopped)
  • Infodisc (stopped)[10]
  • Infosmart Technologies

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  • Pandisk Technologies[20]
  • Philips
  • Plasmon Data Systems (Defunct in late 1990's)[21]
  • Prodisc
  • Pressing-Media www.pressing-media.com
  • PrimeDisc [22]
  • Princo Corp[23] (seems to have stopped, as of 2020 they no longer appear on their home page)[24]
  • Panasonic (Matsushita) (last made DVD-RAM, stopped due to shrinking demand, still makes Blu-rays[25]) Ending production of blu-ray discs for recording in Feb 2023[26]

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References[edit]

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