Blu-ray Disc Association

Blu-ray Disc Association
Trade name	BDA
Company type	Incentive
Industry	Consortium
Founded	20 May 2002
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Number of locations	Japan
Area served	Worldwide
Members	List Dolby Laboratories ; DTS ; Hitachi-LG Data Storage ; Intel ; LG Electronics ; Lionsgate ; Mitsubishi Electric ; Oracle ; Panasonic ; Philips ; Pioneer ; Samsung Electronics ; Sharp ; Sony ; Technicolor ; Toshiba ; Universal Pictures ; Walt Disney Studios ; Warner Bros. ; Xperi ;
Website	blu-raydisc.info

The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) is the industry consortium that develops and licenses Blu-ray Disc technology and is responsible for establishing format standards and promoting business opportunities for Blu-ray Disc. The BDA is divided into three levels of membership: the board of directors, contributors, and general members.^[1]

The "Blu-ray Disc founder group" was started on 20 May 2002 by nine electronic companies: Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Thomson, LG Electronics, Hitachi, Sharp, Samsung Electronics and Sony.^[2] In order to enable more companies to participate, it announced in May 2004 that it would form the Blu-ray Disc Association, which was inaugurated on 4 October 2004.

^ "Membership Levels (About Us, Blu-Ray Association)". 2006. Archived from the original on 5 March 2011. Retrieved 9 December 2006.
^ "Disclosure of Specifications for Large Capacity Optical Disc Recording Format Utilizing Blue-Violet Laser Blu-ray Disc Begins". Sony. May 20, 2002. Archived from the original on July 18, 2020.

[1] "Membership Levels (About Us, Blu-Ray Association)". 2006. Archived from the original on 5 March 2011. Retrieved 9 December 2006.

[2] "Disclosure of Specifications for Large Capacity Optical Disc Recording Format Utilizing Blue-Violet Laser Blu-ray Disc Begins". Sony. May 20, 2002. Archived from the original on July 18, 2020.

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