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Published: December 2006
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Globally, the four Optical Driver giants are HLDS (HITACHI-LG Data Storage), TSST (Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology), Sony NEC and LiteOn. LiteOn might top the world after obtaining the orders of PBDS in 2007. Besides, other companies have to struggle for survival under the big pressure from those large counterparts, but Panasonic is an exception. Panasonic enjoys patents on in-dash optical driver, which was widely applied in car audio system and high-end laptops. Panasonic has shared over 90% of in-dash optical driver market.

Even with an annual shipment of 10 million units, ASUS still lags far behind the world's top three manufacturers, particularly after BenQ's Optical Driver department incorporated into LiteO. It is quite difficult for ASUS to compete with those large companies under the scale-economy effects. Moreover, as the patent authorization is unable to be supported by those big international manufacturers, this makes ASUS impossible to compete with those counterparts in cost.

Others, like TEAC, have been in loss for years and will be inevitably purchase by large counterparts or go bankruptcy. The Optical Driver business of Foxconn mainly focuses on OEM services of Sony PS3. Foxconn is making great efforts in the development of Blu-ray DVD driver, leaving the cost unconsidered.

With regard to Blu-ray and HD DVD, It is widely acknowledged that Blue-ray will be the development trend in spite of HD DVD being presently supported by most manufacturers. On account of low price, HD DVD also sells very well in America. Yet, some manufacturers hold HD DVD as the transitional product, and they invest a lot into the R&D of Blu-ray driver. Since the instability occurred to Sony's Blu-ray driver PS3, the shipment has been delayed for several times, which led to the wait-and-see attitudes from most manufacturers. Besides, the high cost of Blu-ray also hampers the development of Blu-ray. The majority of manufacturers believe that there won't generate a strong market growth for Blu-ray until 2009. And HD DVD will still be the mainstream in the market during 2007-2009.

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1. Development Course of Optical Storage Industry
1.1 Principles of optical storage
1.2 Development history of optical storage
1.3 Current Situation and Development Trend of Optical Discs Market
1.4 Current Situation and Trend of Optical Driver Market
1.5 Status Quo and Trend of Optical Driver Industry
1.6 Status Quo and Trend of Blu-ray and HD DVD
1.7 Merger and Acquisition of Optical Driver Industry
1.8 Overview of Optical Driver Retail Market in China

2. Optical Driver Manufacturers
2.1 HLDS
2.2 TSST
2.3 PBDS
2.4 ASUS
2.5 LiteOn
2.6 Quanta
2.7 Pioneer
2.8 Others
2.8.1 TEAC
2.8.2 Xin Xi Technology
2.8.3 Optorite
2.8.4 Sony NEC OPTIARC
2.8.5 Panasonic

3. Upstream Optical Storage Enterprises
3.1 MediaTek
3.2 Nidec Sankyo

Selected charts:

Development Forecast of Data Storage Media, 1980-2022
Development Forecast of Optical Storage Capacity, 1982-2012
Global Supply of CD Discs, 2004-2010
Global Supply of DVD Discs, 2004-2010
Global Supply of CD-R/RW Discs, 2004-2010
Global Supply of R/RW DVD Discs, 2003-2009
Market Positioning of Varied Optical Driver Products
Global Shipment of Various Optical Storage Drivers, 2002-2006
Global Shipment of CD-R/CD-ROM/DVD Drivers, 1986-2005
Shipment and Output Value of Optical Drivers for IT Industry, 2003-2008
Shipment of DVD Players and Recorders, 2003-2009
Shipment of Blu-ray Drives and Blu-ray Players, 2005-2009
Forecast of Optical Driver Prices, 2004-2009
Quarterly Average Price of DVD±RW, 2003Q1-2006Q2
Market Share Distribution of Major DVD±RW Drive Manufacturers, 2005Q3
Shipment Growth Comparison of Major Optical Driver Manufacturers in 2005
Shipment Growth Comparison of Major Optical Driver Manufacturers in 2007 (forecast)
Market Shares Distribution of Optical Driver Manufacturers, 2006Q1
Revenue Structure of BenQ by Product, 2004Q4-2006Q3
Organizational Structure of LiteOn
Operating Profit Margin, Gross Profit Margin and Net Profit Margin of LiteOn, 2005-2007
Sales Revenues of LiteOn by Product, 2005-2007
DVD-RW Shipment of LiteOn, 2005-2008
Organizational Structure of Quanta Storage Inc
Revenue and Gross Profit Margin of Quanta Storage Inc, 2001-2006
Household DVD Recorder shipment of Pioneer, FY2004-2007
Organizational Structure of MediaTek
Revenue Structure of MediaTek by Product, 2002-2007
Global Market Scale and Growth of DVD Players and Recorders
Organizational Structure of Nidec Sankyo
Revenue Structure of Nidec Sankyo by Product in FY2006
Revenue Structure of Nidec Sankyo by Product in FY2007
Revenues Strucure of Nidec Sankyo by Product during 2003-2005
Shipment of Seven Major Semi-height DVD±RW Drive Manufacturers Worldwide in 2005
Upstream Suppliers of Major Optical Driver Manufacturers
Performance Comparison of DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-ray
Comparison between LiteOn and PBDS
Main Suppliers of LiteOn
Upstream Suppliers of Quanta
Quarterly Revenue of MediaTek, 2005-2006
DVD±RW Laser Head Products of Nidec Sankyo
CD-R/RW+DVD-ROM(Combo)Laser Head Products of Nidec Sankyo
DVD Player Laser Head Products of Nidec Sankyo

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