Sanyo have developed a new more powerful blue laser diode that can burn through Blu-Ray Disks far enough to accurately write four 25GB layers allowing for 100GB of storage.
Currently Blu-Ray disks are limited to 50GB of data.
The new laser is reported to be very fast as well, it can burn disks at 12x which means it could fill an entire 100GB disk in 10 minutes!
Via: Tech-On
The BRAVIA Theatre BDV-IT1000 is an all-in-one home cinema system with an integrated Blu-ray Disc drive. It features super-slim speakers with full-range drive units just 16mm wide, wireless rear speakers, as well as DVD upscaling to 1080p.
BDV-IT1000 at a glance
Ok so HD DVD maybe a dying format but Play.Com is offering the Toshiba HD-EP30 HD DVD Player for a bargain price of £119.99 which includes 5 HD DVDs (from a selected range), Bourne Supremacy and 300. If it was just the HD DVDs that would work out at £17.14 per title which is not that bad itself, and then your get the Player as well!!!
It is worth noting that the US gets a better deal than us but at £119.99 this is still a bargain.
Things are not looking to good for HD DVD at the moment Daily Variety has confirmed that Universal’s agreement to stick with HD DVD has ended and they have decided not to renew the contract. This is not the first troubling bit of news for HD DVD recently as Warner have signed up to a Blue-Ray exclusivity contract and Paramount have an escape contract that can let them just ship following the Warner departure.
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