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” The nearly five-billion-dollar investment with consortium partners is unlikely immediately to boost Sony's sluggish core consumer electronics business but is part of a long-term strategy, theysaid. Yoshimasa Maruyama, senior economist at Mizuho Research Institute, said Sony's Hollywood expansion underlined its push to establish the Blu-ray disc as the DVD of choice for future releases. “ Sony's consumer… Read More

“With the addition of the MPEG-4 AVC High-Profile codec, we are offering content owners maximum functionality and flexibility for their high-definition packaged media,” said Blu-ray Disc spokesperson Maureen Weber, general manager of HP's Optical Storage Solutions Business. “This is just one more example of Blu-ray Disc's commitment to be the best medium for high-definition packaged media.” Video codecs… Read More

The working group WG-11, under the Technical Coordination Group (TCG) of the DVD Forum recently visited leading manufacturers of DVD drives and discs in Taiwan, with the goal of winning their support for HD-DVD, a next-generation DVD format promoted by Toshiba and NEC, according to the Taiwanese makers. There are currently two next-generation DVD formats vying to set the industry standard – HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc, which is supported by… Read More

With the support of TDK, the Blu-ray Disc Founders are broadening their industry support to develop and establish Blu-ray Disc as the next generation optical disc. Large capacity for new home entertainment experienceThe Blu-ray Disc format is poised to leverage two key market trends. First, the arrival of high definition television, and second, consumers' receptivity to new forms of broadband entertainment. In order to record high… Read More

HD-DVD backers at the press event, who also included disc replicators Cinram and Memory-Tech, said the advantages of their format compared to the rival Blu-ray Disc include the use of two bonded discs with a data layer 0.6mm below the surface. This will allow for more cost-effective read/write optics and will enable current manufacturing equipment to be used for HD-DVD. The HD-DVD discs also will not require caddies to protect the… Read More