What the... Already?! -- New DVD (recording) standards: "Blu-Ray"

[Stealth1024]

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991952

"The world's Big Nine electronics companies have swallowed corporate pride and agreed on a single standard and name - Blu-Ray - for the next generation video and computer optical disc. Although good for the consumer, they are putting the future of their fledgling recordable DVD systems in jeopardy. "

"Prototypes already exist, and have been demonstrated by Philips, Sony and Panasonic. Licensing for manufacture begins within a couple of months and the first Blu-Ray recorders could go on sale next year."

"This could be very bad news for the three rival and incompatible recordable DVD systems, DVD-RAM (Panasonic), DVD-RW (Pioneer) and DVD+RW (Philips), which are just going on sale. "

"The 27 GB capacity will increase later to 50GB, thanks to dual layer discs, proposed by Panasonic."

"Existing CD and DVD players and recorders will not be able to use Blu-Ray discs. New Blu-Ray players will need infra-red, red and blue lasers if they are also to play all kinds of CD and DVD recordings."

 

[d1abolic]

Hold on, so these disks will be used for HD movies, aka HDVD? I heard that HDVDs will make use of blue lasers. This is it right?

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Meh, this won't catch on for a while, people want DVD compatible recordings so that they can play it on their recently-bought DVD player.

Unless they find a way to make them DVD-R and CD-R compatible, people interested in casual recording will not buy them...

-Ice

 

[erub]

It wont catch on too soon, just because they might go on sale next year (lets say Oct 2003), you know how much they are going to cost?!? It'll be 4-5 years after that until you can buy one on special at Walmart for $100 (remember the first DVD players were around $1000, maybe even more). Even for use as a computer data storage, once again many years off. Not all PCs even come with DVD drives these days, since there is a serious dearth of software available on DVD. Itll be forever till we see software that needs 27 GB of storage.

 

[DaiShan]

I don't buy what they have now because it is too expensive, one can only imagine the price of these.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Sister Post

 

[n0cmonkey]

My TV wont work with DVDs already, I dont want to know what all I would have to replace to get this working too!

 

[Jugernot]

Already?? The DVD standard has been out since 1997. True, the majority of people are just now catching on, but that doesn't mean it's state of the art anymore. I for one, have had a DVD player since 1998 and have been loving it ever since, but I'd like to see a high res picture with more useable useable storage time for audio/video.

 

[meaty]

bleh , they stratch to easy..

 

[d1abolic]

Yeah, to say that DVD isn't state-of-the-art anymore is a bit of a stretch. DVD sucks when used to store movies. More space of Blu-Ray means:

- Full, wide and anamorphic screen modes
- Uncompromised High Definition video quality
- DTS-ES soundtracks for all movies
- More extras

I bet someone can think of more.