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Blue laser / Blu-ray: One step closer to a 32,000 CD changer

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DaveSimmons

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ZDnet article Blue laser / blu-ray 27 GB disc

The nine companies promoting Blu-ray Disc technology--a next-generation recordable DVD format using blue-violet lasers--announced Thursday that licensing will begin Feb. 17. Blu-ray Disc technology allows for 27GB storage capacities on a single-sided 12cm disc. DVDs hold 4.7GB of data. Hitachi, LG Electronics, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Pioneer, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, Sony and Thomson are known as the "Blu-ray Disc Founders" and have been pursuing a broad acceptance of the format.
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With 27 GB per disc, an iRiver blu-X portable could play a 270 CD disc as 320kbps MP3, or 80 true CD quality encoded as lossless FLAC (the FLAC format is open-source / royalty-free).

A Sony 400-blu jukebox could hold 32,000 lossless true CD quality albums in FLAC format! Sweet.
 
I'm interested in when they'll begin migrating DVDs to Blu-ray. Mmmmm HDTV movie goodness. 🙂

With 27GB of storage space, its safe to assume next generation consoles will support Blu-ray.
 
Originally posted by: KnightBreed
I'm interested in when they'll begin migrating DVDs to Blu-ray. Mmmmm HDTV movie goodness. 🙂

With 27GB of storage space, its safe to assume next generation consoles will support Blu-ray.
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From things I've read will never happen. They want DVD's to be much poorer than cinerma experiance so you actually feel compelled to go. MPEG4 I' think is the best we can hope for which will increase resolutioon by 50% still no where close to HDTV.


 
Do you guys realize how long it would take to burn a 27 GB cd. If they get the max speed up to 52x and I assume that it writes at the same bandwidth as todays recorders then we are looking at 77 minutes. But, the space between bits on the disk should be half the size they are now so the time should be around 38 minutes.
 
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