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).
A
- Anwell Technologies (Defunct in 2019)[citation needed]
B
- BeAll [1]
C
- CDA, Inc[2]
- CD Video Manufacturing, Inc.
- Cinram (went bankrupt due to shrinking demand, purchased by Technicolor SA)[citation needed]
- CMC Magnetics
D
E
- EMI (sold to Cinram)
F
G
- Gigastorage Corporation[11]
H
- Hitachi Maxell (Maxell, stopped)[12][13]
I
L
- Lead Data Inc.[15]
M
- Memory-Tech [16][17]
- Micro-works Technology (defunct)[18]
- Mitsui Chemicals (MAM-A)[19][20][21][22]
- Moser Baer (Defunct since 2018 due to bankruptcy; Its assets have been liquidated)[citation needed]
- Mitsubishi Kagaku Media/Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation / Verbatim (sold in 2019 to CMC Magnetics)[citation needed]
O
- Optodisc Ltd.[23]
P
- PSI Media and Fulfillment Services[24]
- Pandisk Technologies[25][26]
- Philips[citation needed]
- Plasmon Data Systems (Defunct in late 1990's)[27]
- PrimeDisc [28]
- Princo Corp[29] (seems to have stopped, as of 2020 they no longer appear on their home page)[30]
- Panasonic (Matsushita) (made DVD-RAM, stopped due to shrinking demand; made Blu-ray discs for recording until Feb 2023[31][32])
R
S
T
- JVC / Taiyo Yuden (stopped due to shrinking demand, assets sold to CMC magnetics)
- TDK Corporation (former)[40]
- Technicolor SA
- Toshiba-EMI (sold to EMI Music Japan in 2006)[41]
- Traxdata
U
- Umedisc Group[42]
V
W
- WEA Manufacturing (sold to Cinram)[citation needed]