Lite-on/JVC team up with Sony...

[RASTABT]

Lite-On IT and Sony form strategic alliance, sources say
Wednesday, 26 February 2003

According to DigiTimes "...Sony recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Taiwan-based optical drive manufacturer Lite-On IT, reported the Chinese-language Commercial Times. The news follows shortly after BenQ and Philips Electronics announced a new joint venture on February 12..."
and continues "...The two companies were said to be cooperating on developing DVD-Dual chipsets, scheduled for launch in the second quarter. These highly integrated chipsets combine support for the DVD+RW and DVD-RW standards and could help DVD-Dual optical drives/players become mainstream products..."

Maybe the upcoming LiteOn's DVD Dual recorder would be actually a SONY OEM DRU-500A drive?
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[scarecrow]

Lite-On+ Sony sounds just great.

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Originally posted by RASTABT
Maybe the upcoming LiteOn's DVD Dual recorder would be actually a SONY OEM DRU-500A drive?

Hmmm.... who is to say the Sony wasn't a LiteOn all along? LiteOn inside, shiny Sony badge on the outside. Sony did the R+D, LiteOn implemented it into a workable drive.

Usually when cooperative partnership announcements like this are made, a trial partnership has already begun..... they are just making it official for the stock market (be interesting to see how much their respective stocks went up today ) and the public (so we can salivate).

Can't wait for that LiteOn drive to be released..... or has it


Oh and does anyone see the irony of JVC and Sony in a cooperative partnership?