The blue period of lasers
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| Posted by | Robin van Lieshout |
| Posted on | 27/07/02 20:18 |
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The consortiumAlready in 2001 Matsushita and Sony developed their own blue lasers and a consortium was quickly formed in February 2002 to get to some decent standard (See press release here: http://www.matsushita.co.jp/corp/news/official.data/data.dir/en020219-4/en020219-4.html).
Nowadays the Blu-ray standard is supported by 9 leading companies who call themselves 'The Blu-ray Disc Founders". They are:
| Hitachi | http://www.hitachi.com/ |
| LG Electronics Inc. | http://www.lge.com |
| Matsushita Electrical Industrial | http://www.matsushita.co.jp |
| Pioneer Corporation | http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/ |
| Royal Philips Electronics | http://www.philips.com |
| Samsung Electronics | http://www.samsung.com |
| Sharp Corporation | http://sharp-world.com/index.html |
| Sony Corporation | http://www.sony.com |
| Thomson Multimedia | http://www.thomson-multimedia.com |
Toshiba (www.toshiba.com) decided not to participate in the Blu-ray Disc Founders. Various newssources describe that Toshiba believes the DVD Forum (www.dvdforum.org) is more suitable for making uniform standards and they proposed their own 30Gb standard.
Customers are hardly used to the various DVD standards and now it seems the war about disc standards is far from over
AOL Time Warner (www.aoltimewarner.com) and Mitsubishi Electric (global.mitsubishielectric.com) also haven't joined the Blu-Ray Disc Founders yet.
On top of that has NEC (www.nec.com) announced a 35Gb optical disc method, with the possibilities to record 14 hours in DVD quality using a different type of blue laser. NEC proposed this as another standard.
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Posted by nEXusJ on Wednesday 31 July 2002 03:33
Cool post, Mr. Belvedere. 
Great info on the BD. So, when's the expo on the 130GB CD3?
Later,
nEXusJ
Great info on the BD. So, when's the expo on the 130GB CD3?
Later,
nEXusJ
Posted by dansmug on Thursday 01 August 2002 22:30
I thought there were so little reactions, I felt compassion with Mr. Belvedere. So once again: nice article.
Ok. Great article... but... Why are they using MPEG2? We live in a world where MPEG4 has taken over(divx). All they need to do is creat a MPEG4 for super high resolutions(1080p).
Same with audio. By that time we will have DD10.2 or something like it. Audio should be encoded in WMA8(divx audio) or MP3PRO.
Same with audio. By that time we will have DD10.2 or something like it. Audio should be encoded in WMA8(divx audio) or MP3PRO.
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