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Archive for December, 2005
BluRay Region Coding Announced – Japan & US Same Region Code
Dec 31st
“Japanese IT Media has announced some details on the Blu-Ray region coding and it holds a nice surprise. Japan, North America, and East Asia will all be sharing one region code.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2005-12-28
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TDK Blu-ray Discs, coming soon
Dec 31st
“TDK will be offering Blu-ray R and RW media in 25GB and 50GB capacities, although no official release date has been set yet.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2005-12-27
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Pioneer Launches Its First Internal Blu-Ray Disc Writer
Dec 31st
“Supporting BD-R and BD-RE formats in recording/playback, and BD-ROM format in playback.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2005-12-27
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Blu-Ray Proposes Region Codes For Future HD Titles
Dec 31st
“The Blu-Ray Disc Association has reportedly decided to adopt region codes for the forthcoming High Definition movie releases, while the rival HD DVD camp has not yet come up with a final decision on the same issue.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2005-12-20
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BenQ, LiteOn May Suffer From Poor PUH Supply For Blu-ray/ HD-DVD Drives
Dec 21st
“Japanese hold the patents – Taiwanese may experience difficulties to use them.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2005-12-21
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HP to Support HD-DVD
Dec 20th
“HPwill support the HD-DVD high-definition DVD format and join the Promotions Group. HP requested the Blu-ray Disc Association adopt two customer-friendly technologies, Mandatory Managed Copy and iHD, which are already included in the HD-DVD format.
” source: ‘Technology news daily’ 2005-12-19
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HP Joins HD DVD Promotion Group
Dec 20th
“HP officially announced on Friday that it will support the HD-DVD high-definition DVD format, in addition to the Blu-ray Disc format, and join the HD-DVD Promotions Group.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2005-12-17
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Sony’s next generation Blu-ray DVD format hits a pothole
Dec 20th
“While not an all out kick to the curb, Hewlett-Packard has decided to set aside its Blu-ray exclusive status and embrace the HD-DVD format as well. The battle continues with Intel and Microsoft being strong supporters of HD-DVD and Sony and the gang supporting Blu-ray:
“This integration will reduce development…” source: ‘Anandtech’ 2005-12-18
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HP joins HD DVD group due to Blu-ray backers rejecting iHD
Dec 20th
“As the Blu-ray backers went against HP’s demand to include iHD support, Hewlett Packard has announced that they will join the HD DVD Toshiba-led group; however they will continue to support Blu-ray also. HP has made the move to support both in an aim to deliver the most user friendly and cost effective solution to its customers, as well as to be on top of development costs due to the potential price variations between both formats.
The Blu-ray backers originally went against iHD in an aim to prevent the Blu-ray launch from being possibly being delayed in order to add iHD support. However, they have agreed to support “Mandatory Managed Copy”, which gives the ability for consumers to copy their movies onto their hard drive as well as stream them throughout their home network, while at the same time preventing unauthorised copying elsewhere.
When it comes to costs, HD DVD will initially be at an advantage of being able to reuse existing DVD replication equipment as well as being based on the existing DVD format, thus leading to cheaper replication costs. Blu-ray on the other hand has the advantage of being backed by more studios and offering higher disc capacity, however at the drawback of requiring new manufacturing equipment and more expensive material.”
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Storage: Panasonic rolls out 50GB Blu-ray discs
Dec 15th
“One of the primary advantages Blu-ray has versus HD DVD is the fact that the discs support multiple layers. Sony said they’re working on discs with as many as 8 layers, bringing the total capacity to 200GB. Nice. But before we get there, we need to dual and quadruple layer discs first. Panasonic has announced they’ve begun initial production of the former, and they’ll be shipping out sample units before the end of the year. They already have an English press release available, so go ahead and take a look if you’re interested.” source: ‘Techjapan’
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