Mitsubishi and Pioneer develop cheaper dye for Blu-ray discs
Posted on 19/09/07 18:12 by Jan Willem                             
Mitsubishi and Pioneer develop cheaper dye for Blu-ray discs

Cheaper dye for Blu-ray discs! Yay, and it's even organic. Today Mitsubishi and Pioneer have announced that they have developed an organic dye for Blu-ray discs and they are able to produce these discs with DVD-R and CD-R equipment which is already in use! Interesting as HD-DVD is said to be cheaper, but we all know the discs are one piece of the puzzle, what about the equipment to read it?

And equipment, that is where there is a problem. Discs with this new dye can't be read with current devices. Good news is that Pioneer is working on a new drive that can write to these discs. Maybe, there is way to add support for these discs by firmware, but if and when that will be released is unknow.

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By Afterburner (guest), Wed 19 Sep 2007 20:59
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Blu-ray is getting better and better, I doubt HD-DVD will ever going to make it, Blu-ray is technology wise the best, getting cheaper and more support. Buh buye HD-DVD loveit
By jjensson (guest), Wed 19 Sep 2007 21:19
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Yeah, sure. Because one of the main advantages of BluRay was the more stable anorganic dye. What now, goodbye BluRay? Frown
By Ian@CDRLabs.com, Wed 19 Sep 2007 21:31
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Ian@CDRLabs.comOne problem I see is that we're going to have two types of BD-R media.. the old HTL and these new LTH. While LTH discs are supposedly cheaper, its not guaranteed that existing drives will even work with them. Also, you're better off with using this news link: http://www.cdrlabs.com/news/byte/5228
By DukeNukem, Thu 20 Sep 2007 15:14
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DukeNukemBlu-ray ($ony) just keeps making mistakes. They'll just alienate Blu-ray owners whose players cannot play the new discs. Long live HD DVD.
By BitRate, Thu 20 Sep 2007 16:41
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Yes, the HD DVD group had their shit together before they released their format. Sony on ther other hand can't even offer the full HD specs for its discs and equipment.
By joe (guest), Sun 23 Sep 2007 21:01
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By the time ppl start having blue ray readers, let alone recorders, it will still cost an arm + leg for media (couple of bucks) and hard drives will be 2Tb or maybe 3TB big. 25gb disks (really only hold 21gb), couple $ x disks to backup. Mind as well buy another hard disk, or 2 or 3. You'll still come out ahead, and won't have 100's of unlabeled disks getting scratched. Yeah, I'll take another 1000 case cd box please.

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