Watch Impress - PC Watch
May 20, 2002

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/pc/docs/2002/0520/bluray.htm

Sony Press Release
http://www.sony.co.jp/SonyInfo/News/Press/200205/02-0520/

Sharp Press Release
http://www.sharp.co.jp/corporate/news/020520-2.html

Feb 19, 2002
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/pc/docs/2002/0219/dvd.htm

I haven't found a nice way to translate Japanese into English.

Easy to translate almost any web contents into Korean like this:

http://japan.hanmir.com/jtk.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.watch.impress.co.jp%2Fpc%2Fdocs%2...ay.htm&x=8&y=7

The nine companies of "Blu-ray Disc Founders" are:

Hitachi
Matsushita
Pioneer
Sharp
Sony
Royal Philips
Thomson Multimedia
LG Electronics
Samsung Electronics









More Past Japanese News Releases in Feb, 2002

Sony
http://www.sony.co.jp/SonyInfo/News/Press/200202/02-0219/
Matsushita
http://www.matsushita.co.jp/corp/news/official.data/data.dir/jn020219-3/jn020219-3.html
Sharp
http://www.sharp.co.jp/corporate/news/020219.html
Hitachi
http://www.hitachi.co.jp/New/cnews/2002/0219b/index.html