Sony Dadc Austria Ag; The Company - Sony MINIDISC Manual

4. Sony DADC –

The Company

Sony DADC Austria AG, is a hundred percent
daughter company of the Sony Corporation, was
founded in 1986 to cater to the requirements of the
European CD market. Since then, the Compact Disc
has emerged as the dominating sound-carrier. In
1996 more than 900 million units were sold in
Europe. The CD has also become the basic techno-
logy for other optical storage products like Laser
Disc, MiniDisc, CD-ROM or Play Station Disc that
were introduced on the market.
With a quantity of more than 300 million CDs ship-
ped annually Sony DADC is one of the leading
Facts and Figures:
Sites:
No. of employees:
Capacity:
Production quantity:
Our products:
Product Use
Compact Disc Audio
Laser Disc Video
CD-ROM Information processing/
CD-I Multimedia, Interactive
Entertainment
Video CD Video/Film
MiniDisc Portable Audio
PlayStation Interactive
Disc Entertainment
CD EXTRA Multimedia, Audio,
Video, Data
MD Data like CD-ROM
Factory I - Anif/Salzburg
Factory II - Thalgau/Salzburg
1997 approx. 950
1997 1,2 mio/day
more than 300 million
annually
Manufacturers of optical storage media in Europe.
With two plants in Salzburg and the worldwide net-
work with subsidiaries in Japan, Hongkong,
Australia, USA, Canada, Mexico and Brazil, we
guarantee supply to our customers with the highest
quality and top serviceability.
A separate development division with world-
wide networking ensures the step ahead in
production technology and is ready to meet specific
customer requirements. But above all, here we
create the basis for new products in the future so
that we can ensure that the Sony group will be your
partner in the future, too.
Customers: approx. 2500
(International and European music and film com-
panies, publishers, multimedia and information
providers as well as computer and video game
companies and the majority of software and
hardware manufacturers)
ISO 9002: Certification 1995
Size Specification
12 cm max. playing time 77min.
8 cm max. playing time 21min. 50sec.
30 cm max.playing time 120min.
(two sides)
12 cm max. 680 MB
8 cm max. 192 MB
12 cm depending on combination
audio/video/data
6,4 cm playing time approx. 74 min.
12 cm max. 680 MB
12 cm max. 74 min. 30 sek.
8 cm max. 655 MB
6,4 cm max. 140 MB
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