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'''START Lab Inc.''' (株式会社スタート・ラボ; ''Sony Taiyo Yuden Advanced Recording Technology Laboratory''<ref>{{cite web |title=The 25th anniversary of the founding of Start Lab, which has "That's" - The importance of "archives" spoken by the company's president |url=https://www.phileweb.com/interview/article/201408/27/236.html |website=Phileweb |access-date=21 December 2022 |date=27 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Ihashi |first1=Takao |title=Systemized Survey on the Development and Practical Application of Compact Disc (CD) Technology |url=https://sts.kahaku.go.jp/diversity/document/system/pdf/105_e.pdf |access-date=19 December 2022}}</ref>) is a [[joint venture]] of [[Sony|Sony Corporation]] and [[Taiyo Yuden|Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.]] The headquarters are in [[Chiyoda, Tokyo]].

START Lab, founded in June 1989, was active in the optical media business. Initially intended to produce small-scale runs of CDs for business customers on the basis of newly developed CD-R technology,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gatski |first1=John |title=Sony Joins Recordable CD Team |journal=Radio World |date=26 July 1989 |page=20 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Site-Technical/Engineering-Broadcast/Radio-World-IDX/IDX/1989/Radio-World-1989-07-26-IDX-20.pdf}}</ref> it pioneered the sale of [[CD-R]] media to consumers. The current president is [[Masanori Kimizuka]].<ref>[http://startlab.co.jp/en/profile.html START Lab | Company Profiles] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070601163559/http://startlab.co.jp/en/profile.html |date=June 1, 2007 }}</ref> 50.1% of START Lab is owned by Sony, 49.9% is owned by Taiyo Yuden.

START Lab ceased operations in March 2016 after parent company Taiyo Yuden ended production of storage media.

Well-known product lines included the That's consumer media, the That's CD-R/DVD-R for master product line, and the CD/DVD error checkers (ES-50, ES-70, ES-1000 rebranded [[Almedio]] model).

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060917213616/http://startlab.co.jp/en/index.html Official website (English)]
* [http://startlab.co.jp Official website (Japanese)]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070206032135/http://www.thatscd-r.jp/index.htm START LAB Online shop (English)]

[[Category:Electronics companies of Japan]]

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