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...Not bad, but it'll be a while I think before this becomes useful.
Right now, my DVD-R's can be played in just about anyone's DVD player...but these blue things would be useless most places.
It'll be a while before people replace their current DVD players with new blue laser players.
I'd have to agree with you there, but nonetheless I think I speak for all of us when I say: *DROOL*
Yeah it's gonna take a while before we can get one of these in our desktop... But in 10 years from now I bet we will all be using 54GB DVD-Rs
oh man, 10 years from now I'll be an old man
Just think how much fun it's going be to ripping and compressing those MFers
The discs you're talking about are quot;blue ray discsquot;, but no dvds. I don't know why the quote says quot;blue day DVDquot;, it's certainly no DVD. Otherwise you could call a DVD being a CD as well.
Toshiba is AFAIK going to cook their own soup, of course incompatible with blue ray discs, so that similar crap as dvd± is going to start again.
Blue ray discs will have a unique identification code on them, making copy protections easy to implement. I wouldn't be too much fascinated by that part of the new discs.
When will GordianKnot have a drop-down option for 27Gb cd size?
Originally posted by smoof
Just think how much fun it's going be to ripping and compressing those MFers:scared:
yeah but by then we'll all have 3 TB hdds and 50 ghz processors ;]
But HD seriously needs to take off. A near-future release of a good high-def storage format would be really nice. I noticed a new D-VHS player/recorder at BestBuy the other day, but neither this nor the HD-DVD crap interests me. Viva la blu-ray 
As for copy protection, well, as long as it exists there will always be circumvention. Besides, instead of being negative like that just imagine 1920x1080 XviD rips
mmm...
Even better if they decide to use telecine again and go 1080i telecined over 720p
mmm
A little more on the BLue Laser debate, from Toshiba and NEC:
cgi-bin/g...toshiba059.htmArky ;o) |
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