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Soon, users at home may have a safer alternative to storing their backup data on magnetic hard drives. The Blu-ray Disc Association  has released a press statement highlighting new format enhancements of the Blu-ray technology, including discs that store up to 128GB. Within the next few months, two new media specifications will hit the market: BDXL (High Capacity Recordable and Rewritable Discs) and IH-BD (Intra-Hybrid discs). The BDXL… Read More

The Blu-ray Disc Association has finally completed work on the Blu-ray 3D specification, which provides a standardized way for Hollywood studios to bring the growing amount of 3D theatrical content—things like Up and Avatar—to Blu-ray users with full HD 1080p 3D graphics. The system works by compressing separate video streams for the left and right eye, meaning 3D content has about double the data of a typical 2D presentation…and, of course, it… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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. Merrill… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More