Blu-Ray production technology available for licensees - 6x DVD

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Posted on	14/02/03 15:48
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Blu-Ray production technology available for licensees - 6x DVD

As we are currently using a red laser to write and read data from CDs and DVDs, in the future the color of the laser will be blue, as this paves the way for more data storage. This laser has another wavelentgh and this allows the density of the data to be much intenser.

A blu-ray laser disc should for now be able to contain about 15 GB and a consortium of nine companies is already licensing the format. This consortium does not contain the Japanse electronic giants NEC and Toshiba who are still studying their own format which they hope to develop.

The gang of nine, Sony, Matsushita, Hitachi, Pioneer, Sharp, Samsung, LG, Philips and Thomson, pooled their resources in the hope of creating a definitive standard. Toshiba and NEC are known to be working on a competing platform but it is looking increasingly like they will be left in the cold.

There has been no indication yet as to when the first Blu-Ray players will become available. With the immense take up of DVD over the last few years, the new format is going to have a struggle to get going unless it offers something very special

With Sony, Pioneer, Samsung and Philips in the consortium it is not very likely NEC and Toshiba will win this race. If you would like to learn more about Blu Ray technology then read our easy to understand article here.

Source: TheInquirer

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Posted by nEXusJ on Friday 14 February 2003 17:07

yes, yes, yes, more blurbs of blu-ray.

now let's get some consumer products!

and that should spell out lower prices for the current hot-items...

Posted by on Friday 14 February 2003 20:47

this has no chance as a consumer product. how are you going to convince people that it is better than DVD when you have spent so long telling Joe Public that DVD is the best quality possible. People are pissed off to the back teeth with the introduction of new formats.

Posted by on Saturday 15 February 2003 06:12

Blu Ray will succeed in the data storage/computer arena first. t will be sometime before Blu Ray takes off in the consumer audio/visual arena. But Hi-Def TV recording may help it along the way at least in the USA and Japan.

Posted by animecabbit on Monday 17 February 2003 20:44

I'm not sure blu-ray is the way to go.

There's gotta be some sort of "copy protection" made on it so it will not or will be very hard to copy disks. Of course, we woldn't have to worry about that until it becomes mass market, which should be another 2 years or so.

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