Blu-ray is on the road

[planet10]

I'm very much rooting for Blu-Ray. It has close to twice the storage capacity & higher data rate so will be better for audio.

To answer an earlier question... if you have ever seen HD vrs DVD quality there will be no question as to why. And HD is realistically only at 720p with 1080p soon to be common.

Whether it or HD-DVD wins will, in the end, come down to who gets available software titles. So far Blu-Ray has the most biggies behind it (including Sony & Disney), but these guys are easily swayed. And don't forget that with a new video format, the porn industry plays a big role. M$ has lined up behind HD-DVD, Apple behind Blu-Ray (keep in mind that the industry standard Hollywood computer is a Mac).

HD-DVD looks to have a big edge on entry level price with the 1st machines, but this does not take into consideration that the next PlayStation will become the least expensive Blu-Ray player.

HD-DVD also has an initial edge in that the current DVD pressing plants can be used to press HD-DVDs whereas they will need some retrofitting to press Blu-Ray.

dave

[Ghianni]

Well, it seems that soming is going on.... take a look at here: http://www.tvbeurope.com/index.php?o...d=259&Itemid=1

Ghianni.

[dnsey]

Worth mentioning (along with sony's failures some things they may have got right).....
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good TV's

It took them a while though - what about their early sets which used a weird implementation of NTSC to display PAL signals (in very odd colours most of the time)?

[planet10]

Originally posted by Ghianni
Well, it seems that soming is going on.... take a look at here: http://www.tvbeurope.com/index.php?o...d=259&Itemid=1

I hadn't realized Sonic Solutions had sucked up Roxio... that is good news. Apple's built-in CD/DVD burning is based on Roxio code IIRC, so that means the software basis for blu-ray burners in the Mac is already in place.

BTW Teac has already engineered multi-layer blu-ray disks capable of storing 200 GB.

dave

[Ghianni]

May be this is interesting to you.
Take a look at here: http://oto-online.com/index.php?opti...=116&Itemid=49

G.

[Spasticteapot]

Originally posted by planet10


I hadn't realized Sonic Solutions had sucked up Roxio... that is good news. Apple's built-in CD/DVD burning is based on Roxio code IIRC, so that means the software basis for blu-ray burners in the Mac is already in place.

BTW Teac has already engineered multi-layer blu-ray disks capable of storing 200 GB.

dave

And this is why Blu-Ray is never going to be another Betamax or SACD.

A single blu-ray disk can handle over 24 times as much data as a double-layer DVD, making it an excellent choice for archiving data. A 200gb tape drive is often well over a thousand dollars, and the tape drive cartridges are expensive. Blu-ray is going to be adopted very fast by the users of enterprise-level systems, and enterprise-level systems mean big budgets.