{"id":531138,"date":"2026-07-03T13:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T13:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/531138\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T13:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T13:15:09","slug":"sony-already-invested-34-million-to-repurpose-its-eu-playstation-disc-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/531138\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Already Invested $34 Million To Repurpose Its EU PlayStation Disc Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Austrian facility will be used to make optical microlenses. <\/p>\n


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Sony has been preparing<\/a> for the end of disc-based PlayStation games for quite some time, based on a report by ORF Salzburg<\/a>, the regional publication of Austria’s national broadcasting network.\u00a0The management at Sony’s\u00a0Digital Audio Disc Corporation told ORF that the company has already invested\u00a0\u20ac30 million ($34 million) into converting its disc factory\u00a0in Thalgau, Salzburg into a plant for optical microlenses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Those changes have apparently been in the works for quite some time, though management only told Thalgau workers about them on July 1, when Sony announced<\/a> that PlayStation is going all in on digital starting in January 2028.\u00a0Optical microlenses can manipulate light and are typically used in camera sensors, AR\/VR headsets, fiber optic networks and medical devices.<\/p>\n

The Thalgau plant currently manufactures 600,000 discs every day, with half of that volume going to PlayStation games. Sony DADC CEO\u00a0Dietmar Tanzer expects disc production to drop to 10 percent of the plant’s current output in 2028. As The Verge<\/a> notes, the Thalgau facility isn’t just one of Sony’s disc-making factories, it’s where DADC is based. DADC used to have a mass manufacturing facility in\u00a0Terre Haute, Indiana, where it made 23 billion discs<\/a>\u00a0from 1983 until it closed in 2022. From that time until today, it has manufactured 3.4 billion more discs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tanzer told ORF that the company intends to retain the 300 employees currently working for it at the Thalgau plant. They will be retrained for the production of optical microlenses in the near future, since Sony plans to start manufacturing them as soon as next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Austrian facility will be used to make optical microlenses. VGV MEDIA\/Shutterstock Sony has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-531138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}