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Toshiba Goes Blu-ray

Toshiba Goes Blu-ray

It lost the HD DVD versus Blu-ray war, and after some time to lick its wounds, Toshiba has announced it’s going to begin making products that will play Blu-ray discs.

Once the big movies studios backed Blu-ray it was all over for Toshiba and the HD DVD format last year, but now the company realizes it needs a share of the new pie, so it’s going to make Blu-ray DVD players, as well a drives to desktops and laptops that will play Blu-ray, with the first products available before the end of the year.

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Blu-ray, HD DVD Joust at CeBIT

The so-called “format war” between high-definition DVD formats HD DVD and Blu-ray might not be a shooting match on most days, but when you add a little gasoline to the fire in the form of an international trade show like CeBIT, the camps seem to enjoy an occasional tactical engagement.

Sony has been bragging lately that the high-definition war is all but over, declaring themselves the winner based on recent U.S. sales data and the fact every PlayStation 3 game console ships with a Blu-ray drive. Today at CeBIT, the Blu-ray Disc Association chairman Frank Simonis upped the ante even further, declaring that not only will Blu-ray beat out HD DVD, it will completely do in the standard DVD. “Within three years it will just be Blu-ray,” he said at the CeBIT trade show.  Read more...

Playstation 3 Launch Up to a Year Away?

Analyst Hitoshi Kuriyama of Merrill Lynch in Japan has reported that launch of the PS3 could be delayed by six to twelve months, according to the Financial Times. Such a delay would mean the gaming platform wouldn’t appear in Japan until the latter half of 2006, and wouldn’t launch in the U.S. until 2007.

The main reasons for a delay would appear to be high production costs and unfinished technical specifications.  Read more...

Three Major Players Side With Blu-ray

As the DVD format wars continue to unravel, the current theme seems to be telling us that the gaming and computing industries will continue to support the Blu-ray storage format while Hollywood pushes ahead with support for HD DVD on the home video side.

“Blu-ray Disc offers a compelling, interactive entertainment and gaming platform that leaps substantially past current DVD standards,” said Eric Chu, director, consumer and mobile systems group of Sun Microsystems. “We look forward to playing a key role in supporting Blu-ray Disc’s inclusion of the Java platform to provide a unique set of interactive capabilities that will create new revenue opportunities for content vendors who use Blu-ray Disc for their movies, games or other products.”  Read more...

JVC Joins Blu-ray Disc Association

JVC becomes one of the first companies to join the newly formed Blu-ray Disc Association. The BDA was created to broaden the opportunities for other companies to help develop, promote and establish Blu-ray Disc as an industry standard for high-definition optical storage.

“JVC’s decision to join in the development and promotion of the Blu-ray Disc format adds to the tremendous support we enjoy within the consumer electronics industry,” said Maureen Weber, chief BDA spokesperson and General Manager of HP’s Optical Storage Solutions Business, on behalf of the Blu-ray Disc Association. “We expect many, many more companies representing all segments of the consumer-electronics, PC and optical media industries to soon join them as members of the BDA.”  Read more...

Dolby Mandatory For Both HD DVD and Blu-ray

Dolby Laboratories announces that Dolby(R) audio technologies have been selected as mandatory formats for both High-Definition Digital Versatile Disc (HD DVD) and Blu-ray Disc. The DVD Forum has selected Dolby Digital Plus and MLP Lossless(TM) as mandatory audio formats for HD DVD. The Blu-ray Disc Association announced that Dolby Digital will be a mandatory technology on its new format, the Blu-ray Disc. Both discs are next-generation packaged media formats designed to deliver high-definition picture quality.  Read more...

Blu-ray Group Looking For New Members

In response to growing industry support for the Blu-ray Disc standard, the 13 members of the Blu-ray Disc Founders today announced plans to create the Blu-ray Disc Association (“BDA”).  The new entity will establish format standards and promote and further develop business opportunities for Blu-ray Disc (BD) – the next generation optical disc for storing high-definition movies, photos and other digital content.

The Blu-ray Disc Association will invite more companies from a wider range of industries to have a role in the format creation, technology contribution, and working level BDA operations.  Read more...

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