{"id":1251,"date":"2009-06-25T15:46:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T15:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tedpublications.com\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2009-06-25T15:46:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T15:46:12","slug":"pioneer-and-sharp-make-joint-venture-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tedpublications.com\/en\/?p=1251","title":{"rendered":"Pioneer and Sharp Make Joint Venture Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sharp<\/strong> and <strong>Pioneer<\/strong> have officially  announced that their optical disc joint venture &#8211; Pioneer Digital Design  and Manufacturing Corporation &#8211; will launch on October 1st of this  year. As we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blu-ray.com\/news\/?id=2574\" target=\"_blank\">previously reported<\/a>, Sharp and Pioneer agreed to merge their optical disc business as part of Pioneer&#8217;s restructuring plan.<br \/>\nThe joint venture will be located within Pioneer&#8217;s Kawasaki Plant in  Japan, with Pioneer owning 66% of the new corporation, and Sharp owning  the remaining 34%.<\/p>\n<p>The companies hope that by joining their optical disc businesses  that they can better compete with other manufacturers who have, so far,  been much more successful selling their Blu-ray products.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blu-ray.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blu-ray.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharp and Pioneer have officially announced that their optical disc joint venture &#8211; Pioneer Digital Design and Manufacturing Corporation &#8211; will launch on October 1st of this year. As we previously reported, Sharp and Pioneer agreed to merge their optical disc business as part of Pioneer&#8217;s restructuring plan. The joint venture will be located within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tedpublications.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tedpublications.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tedpublications.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tedpublications.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tedpublications.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tedpublications.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tedpublications.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tedpublications.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tedpublications.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}