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Archive for September, 2005
Blu-ray Defends As HD DVD Pressure Mounts
Sep 30th
“The Blu-Ray camp has defended the Blu-ray DVD format following the news that Intel and Microsoft are putting their considerable weight behind Toshiba’s HD-DVD. Sony and Philips representatives believe that there will be ‘no impact’ from decision by Intel and Microsoft to back rival format.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2005-09-29
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Major Chinese DVD player Manufacturers to Support HD-DVD
Sep 30th
“Amoi Electronics and Sichuan Changhong Electric, the two top DVD player manufacturers in China have voiced support for the HD-DVD format. This marks the first victory for the HD-DVD group in their competition with the Blu-ray Disc (BD) group led by Sony.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2005-09-28
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HD DVD and Blu-Ray Progress Update
Sep 23rd
“Without doubt, it is still hard to come up with safe conclusions about which will be the dominant format for the next generation HD content. The various pieces of information coming from the HD DVD and Blu-Ray camps is almost always biased and full of hype, making it difficult for industry observers to get to the real crux of the matter.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2005-09-22
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Blu-ray and HD DVD Content Protection
Sep 18th
“As Hollywood movie studios and consumer electronics manufacturers consider how to protect high-definition video entertainment from piracy, the Blu-Ray and HD DVD camps plan to adopt – partially similar – comprehensive content management schemes.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2005-09-16
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Paper: Samsung to Launch Dual-Standard DVD Player
Sep 15th
“Samsung will bring out a DVD machine next year capable of playing both Blu-ray and HD DVD if backers of the rival standards fail to agree on a unified format.” source: ‘Ziff Davis’
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Recording on next-generation Blu-Ray Discs
Sep 15th
“Although the recordable/rewritable Blu-Ray disc is far from becoming a mainstream PC medium, hardware manufacturers already promote their PC drives that will support recording at speeds higher than 2x.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2005-09-14
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Sony Predicts Blu-Ray Dominance within 12 Months
Sep 14th
“The recently announced delay of the first HD-DVD devices, as well as the April’s launch of the Playstation 3 gaming machine next April has led a senior Sony Pictures executive to predict that the Blu-Ray will be the doninant standard in 12 months from now.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2005-09-13
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Audio/Video: "Family Guy", "24" coming to Blu-ray
Sep 14th
“To no one’s surprise, Fox has announced they’ll be putting content out in the Blu-ray format. They threw out some examples in the process — the ones that stuck out for me are “Family Guy” and “24.” Of course some of you would probably appreciate “M*A*S*H” in the lineup, too.
Impress Watch carries the full list of titles, in English. No (English) press release from Fox about this yet.” source: ‘Techjapan’
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Microsoft to Support Taiwanese FVD Project for HD Video
Sep 12th
“Microsoft plans to cooperate with Taiwanese software and hardware companies to jointly promote Taiwan’s next-generation DVD format, the forward versatile disc (FVD), an alternative format to Blu-Ray and HD-DVD.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2005-09-09
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Audio/Video: "Family Guy", "24" coming to Blu-ray
Sep 8th
“To no one’s surprise, Fox has announced they’ll be putting content out in the Blu-ray format. They threw out some examples in the process — the ones that stuck out for me are “Family Guy” and “24.” Of course some of you would probably appreciate “M*A*S*H” in the lineup, too.
Impress Watch carries the full list of titles, in English. No (English) press release from Fox about this yet.” source: ‘Techjapan’
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