Archive for April, 2006

TDK cracks 200GB Blu-ray Disc problem

“Yes, but is it really a Blu-ray Disc? TDK has gone ahead and produced the 200GB Blu-ray Disc it announced a few weeks ago that it was working on. And while it appears to have failed to compress four standard dual-layer 50GB discs together into a single unit, it has nonetheless come up with a novel alternative.?” source: ‘The Register’ 2006-04-28
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Moser Baer India to Launch Next-gen Discs Later This Year

“Moser Baer India is among the companies that will develop and commercialize Blu-ray and HD DVD media by the end of 2006.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2006-04-28
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BenQ BW1000 Triple Blu-ray Burner

“BenQ and Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV remain on their schedule to launch their Blu-ray DVD burner in Q3 of 2006, and promise compatibility with the CD and DVD formats.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2006-04-27
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Matsushita: Blu-Ray, HD-DVD Will Never Merge

“The companies backing competing formats for next-generation DVD technology will never again talk about forming a unified standard, an executive at Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said on Friday, leaving it to the consumer to choose the winning side.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2006-04-26
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Avid Adds High-Definition Authoring to Avid DVD by Sonic

“Sonic Solutions on Thusday introduced Avid DVD by Sonic – BD Edition, a Blu-ray Disc (BD) authoring system for video professionals.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2006-04-26
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Buffalo Announces BD Drives

“Japanese Buffalo announced the ATAPI BR-H2FB as well the external USB BR-H2U2 Blu-ray drives for PCs, both available in the beginning of June.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2006-04-26
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Blu-ray Drives for Mac

“Japanese Logitec announced four Blu-ray disc writer drives including one with Apple Mac support.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2006-04-25
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: Toshiba World Cup Laptop, Logitec Blu-ray drive for Macs

“I don’t really have anything to what has already been said over at Engadget about Toshiba’s World Cup laptop, and Logitec’s Mac compatible Blu-ray drive. They’ve managed to cover the bases pretty well.

Just in case you’re looking for reference information (writing a report?), here are the PC Watch articles about each respective product: 8221; source: ‘Techjapan’
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Panasonic Releasing BD Drives in June

“Panasonic, the brand behind Matsushita Electric Industrial announced last week that the company will introduce a half-height internal Blu-ray Disc (BD) drive for desktop computers in Japan on June 10.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2006-04-25
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Primera and TDK announced the world’s first inkjet printable Blu-ray Disc at NAB 2006

“Primera Technology announced the introduction of the world’s first inkjet printable BD-R Blu-ray Disc media.” source: ‘CDRinfo’ 2006-04-24
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