thxtof
23rd October 2002, 23:36
This is very promising :)
At its huge Sony Dream World exhibition, held in Yokohama, Japan, on September 14-15 and attended by over 50,000 visitors, Sony allowed the public to experience prototype products using the Blu-Ray DVD system, displaying breathtaking high-resolution images - including a clip from ‘Spider-Man’ - onto Plasma Wega monitors.
While the world is worrying about whether SACD or DVD-A will replace CD, and which DVD-Recordable format will win through, Sony was showing what's quite possibly the replacement for DVD - and it records, too. By using a shorter laser wavelength than current DVD players (405nm, which is in the blue-violet spectrum), it allows storage capacities of up to 27GB on a single-layer disc, or 54GB on a dual-layer.
This permits up to two hours of high-definition digital recording or 12 hours for analogue broadcasts on that single-layer disc, with data rates of up to 36Mbps, far in excess of what standard DVD can offer. The format is backed by a number of companies, including Panasonic parent Matsushita, Philips, Pioneer, LG and Samsung, and on the showing at the Dream World exhibition it has enormous potential to move DVD quality on from the already remarkable standards to which we've rapidly become accustomed...
At its huge Sony Dream World exhibition, held in Yokohama, Japan, on September 14-15 and attended by over 50,000 visitors, Sony allowed the public to experience prototype products using the Blu-Ray DVD system, displaying breathtaking high-resolution images - including a clip from ‘Spider-Man’ - onto Plasma Wega monitors.
While the world is worrying about whether SACD or DVD-A will replace CD, and which DVD-Recordable format will win through, Sony was showing what's quite possibly the replacement for DVD - and it records, too. By using a shorter laser wavelength than current DVD players (405nm, which is in the blue-violet spectrum), it allows storage capacities of up to 27GB on a single-layer disc, or 54GB on a dual-layer.
This permits up to two hours of high-definition digital recording or 12 hours for analogue broadcasts on that single-layer disc, with data rates of up to 36Mbps, far in excess of what standard DVD can offer. The format is backed by a number of companies, including Panasonic parent Matsushita, Philips, Pioneer, LG and Samsung, and on the showing at the Dream World exhibition it has enormous potential to move DVD quality on from the already remarkable standards to which we've rapidly become accustomed...