Blue Laser will hit store shelves in Japan on April 10 !!!

[andyg]

Read the whole news here:


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030303/tc_nm/tech_sony_dvd_dc_1

[atreides93]

Looks cool. It'll probably be a couple of years before its really useful though. There are tons of existing DVD players out there that won't play those discs. One of the best things about DVD-R (red laser) is that its compatible with most of the players out there and just about every player sold today.

[andyg]

So far we had only 2 formats -/+ to worry about.There are several of blue laser on the future table to come.

This one will get interesting .... let the fun begin!

"Sony's Blu-ray machine will be able to play red-laser discs using the DVD-R and DVD-RW formats, but not those using the DVD-RAM or DVD+RW formats. "

[gooki]

Lol, i knew DVD-R was superrior :)

[andyg]

Yeah, like it myself. Never had a problem with my A05 and the only time a made a couple of costers was when I was converting NTSC DV file to PAL MPEG-2. Wrong field order.
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[spruceland]

$29 bucks for one disc though. & $3500 for the burner. I think me wait a few years. I'm going wait for the Pioneer dvr recorder w/ hardrive coming out this summer

[gooki]

Lol, those prices aren't to bad for such a new technnology. I sell DVD-R authoring discs to a company that paid $7,500 USD for their SCSI DVD writer.

[abatis]

The blue laser discs can hold 23GB of data. Sounds like a good data solution. With DVD-9 adequately holding a large film and extras what is the ultimate use of a blue disc. It would be kind of stupid having 3 movies on one disc? Think of how the human mind works. Much easier to sort info by single folder - not where in this group? Of couse a jukebox would like it.

The alternative is super high quality - I just don't see a consumer vision for the product. Good for backing info or jukebox though.

[TRILIGHT]

Originally posted by abatis
The alternative is super high quality - I just don't see a consumer vision for the product. Good for backing info or jukebox though.

Have you ever seen HDTV? Blu-Ray is the recording solution for such a medium. Not to mention that any movies released on such a format would surely rival even the best "Superbit" DVD discs given the space available. There may or may not have been a "consumer vision" for microwave ovens when they were invented in the 1940's but it doesn't mean there isn't one in practically every kitchen around today. ;) The "time to market" for such technology has gotten a LOT better. I doubt we'll have to wait ~60 years for such technology to become ubiquitous. I'll gladly buy a Blu-Ray recorder when I have a nice HDTV set and the recorders are under $1000.

[abatis]

I see your point. I have not seen HDTV yet - however, I am looking forward to buying a plasma screen when they get reasonable. We will see where this goes.

[TRILIGHT]

Originally posted by abatis
I have not seen HDTV yet
I highly recommend going by a local electronics store that has HDTV on display. Not some crap place that is displaying an analog signal on an HDTV monitor. When you see the clarity and depth of color, you will truly freak out. It's that good! :D

[atreides93]

What I"m waiting for are HDTV camcorders, so you can archive them to blu-ray DVD's....that'll be nice :)

it'll make our current miniDV camcorders look like old 8mm reels

[TRILIGHT]

Ah...just imagine the porn. LOL :D

[andyg]

Your fantasy is about to come true ô¿ô


"TOKYO (Jan. 22, 2003) -- Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC) has announced the Japanese launch in early March of the GR-HD1 high-definition digital video camera, the first consumer digital video camera in the world to record and play back digital high-definition images. Monthly production is scheduled to be 1,000 units, and the suggested retail price is currently open.

The camera will be announced in the United States later this year."



http://www.digitalproducer.com/2003/01_jan/news/01_20/jvc_hd.htm

[The Edge]

digit-life.com (http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/blu-ray/index.html)



Edge

[andyg]

Cool looking thing!

[The Edge]

The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) of Taiwan together with 28 companies has established the Advanced Optical Storage Research Alliance (AOSRA) whose purpose is to gain control of the intellectual property for the next-generation of blue-laser HD-DVD formats. The new formats will be physically similar to the formats that already exist (Toshiba/NECs format and Blu-Ray) but will use their own proprietary compression, error correction and file formats to avoid infringing of patents.
"Taiwanese companies hold 50 percent of the world market for CD-ROM drives and 40 percent of the market for DVD- ROM drives, said Der Ray Huang, deputy general director of ITRI and director general of AOSRA. But most of the associated IP "is owned by European and Japanese companies, [and] Taiwanese companies have to pay royalties to those companies," Huang said. "The purpose of AOSRA is to invent IP for new formats."
Properties of the new HD-DVD formats
http://img.cmpnet.com/eet/news/03/march/DISKFORMAT1262_PG_13.gif
With a total of four competing technologies it looks like the struggle for the next-generation of HD-DVD formats will be even tougher than today’s fight about the recordable DVD formats.

Source:
EE Times (http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20030324S0032)


Edge

[andyg]

Nice! Thanks for the news!

[The Edge]

No problems.

Edge

[deano42]

I have found hdtv ready projection tvs to be ok watching hdtv signals and dvds, but i find them a bit overrated, for me 80% of my tv viewing is watching regular analog cable signals,which digital tvs have a hard time converting the signal, it looks like it could be a few years off until hdtv signals are mainstream, so until then i hope my old analog projection tv hangs on.