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Technicolor, Testronic Labs Team On Blu-ray Disc Verification
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Testronic Labs and Thomson’s Technicolor business unit are joining forces to offer Blu-ray Disc publishers a comprehensive set of testing services.
With the new “on-location offering” of standards compliance, format integrity, and player compatibility testing, the companies say that the total length of time to get client product to replication will be reduced by one to two days.
Testronic Labs was recently audited and accredited by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) to provide BD-ROM Movie Player and BD-ROM PC Application Software certification services, and in September 2008, Technicolor established the first BDA-approved Blu-ray Disc Test Center for Commercial Audiovisual (AV) Content in the United States.
“We are very excited to work with Testronic to offer these testing capabilities,” said Bob Michaels, vice president of worldwide compression and authoring services. “This will provide a value-added service to the industry and ultimately result in a better user experience of Blu-ray Discs.”
“Earlier this year our two companies started thinking about ways we could better serve the supply chain,” added Seth Hallen, president, Testronic Labs. “We are convinced that our combined expertise brings powerful testing solutions to the Blu-ray Disc industry.”
The two companies add they will be ready offer verification and testing services for Blu-ray 3D in 2010.
