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Blu-ray started their invasion into our homes via the Trojan Horse Playstation 3. They had hoped to break into the unwilling markets by integrating themselves on Christmas’ most popular gift. The full force of Blu-ray army would not be far behind, given the recent droves of Blu-Ray stand alone players as well as PC drives coming out in the market.
But the real clincher is the Blu-Ray camcorder by Hitachi Japan. It is officially the world’s first Blu-Ray Camcorder in the market. The Blu-Ray camcorder will be utilizing the 8cm Blu-Ray disks with 7.5 GB capacity each. The DZ-BD70 model will be support by disk only storage. This translates to roughly one hour of full high definition video on a single-layer BD. The DZ-BD7H on the other hand, will sport an additional built in 30GB hard disk drive as well and accommodate 4 hours of 1920×1080 hi-def video.
With 80% of the camcorders on the prevailing market utilizing tape-free storage, Hitachi hopes to dominate the 30% hold of high definition in the camcorder market. The new Blu-Ray BD camcorders will have an array of exclusively developed full Hi-Def lens, and 5.3 MP progressive complementary metal oxide semiconductor image sensor to fully compliment the HD facility of the Blu-ray technology.
Not wanting to be left behind in the technology arena, Sony has announced its launch of four brand new Blu-Ray HD models of optical disc recorders. Unlike Sony’s previous recorder model launched last year, these new recorders will be able to store 16 hi-def hours of video on dual layer disks. The most advanced model of the four being introduced boasts of a 500GB hard disk capacity.
Price remains to be as of yet announced, but you can be sure early adopters will have to dig very deep into their pockets for a taste if the exclusive, compared to the more patient watch and waiters who will jump into the market about a year from now. But that’s the price of early adoption and being the cool kid on the block.
Their launch comes as no surprise, and well coordinated with the release of Hitachi’s Blu-Ray technology camcorder. As more HDTV’s are flooding the homes all across the nation and as with Hitachi, more digicams and camcorders are HD ready, the need for more Blu-Ray compatible storage devices and their components are incontrovertible.
In light of the new developments in the home theater systems, Blockbuster Videos have just expressed their favor of the blu-ray format. This should be an exciting event in the home movie entertainment, the likes of which have not been seen since the advent of the VHS/VCR player.
Blu-ray is trailblazing the way in to many areas unlike the HD DVD. This popularity contest reminiscent of high school peers, have introduced a whole new world of mass storage devices. Healthy competition is always a good thing for consumers. But with the Blu-Ray technology still at its infancy, keep your eyes and ears peeled for more developments, as more blu-ray innovation gets integrated into more areas of our daily life. GP
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Citizens of today will soon run out of reasons for dodging the Blu-Ray mania. Having primarily left the Blu-Ray buy fest to techie eager beavers, it seems there’s no more running away from them. Anywhere we turn today, we are surrounded by the Blu-Ray bandwagon.
Roxio, the self proclaimed leader in digital media recording and playback software, has released it’s first Blu-ray burning software. The Blu-ray software application is just one in a series of high definition support by Roxio.
The Blu-Ray software applications for pc drives enable the home personal computer for data backup on Blu-Ray disks. It also supports blu-Ray recording on BD-R, rewriting on BD-RE, Blu-Ray disk copying, and Blu-Ray format recording and playback.
Currently only Windows Vista compatible, it goes against the backwards compatibility of the blu-ray format. But then again, it’s made just for Blu-ray. It should be a caveat for Windows XP users still out there.
For the rest of you who still have that extra Blu-Ray burner lying around, Nero has also come out with its own Blu-ray support. It initially only supports Blu-ray disk burning, but other applications is not far behind.
This should put some good use to the LG internal Blu-ray GGW-H10N super burner HD DVD read-only combo drive released early May 2007. For $1,200 it really doesn’t do much justice to the 4x blu-ray burn speed, but even that is so far theoretical. It is capable of recording 50GB of data on dual layer BDR blanks, but with 4x speed, expect long waits on burning times. Keep in mind that it takes about an hour to burn 18 GB of data running on 2x. So make sure you have ample time on your cd burning hands when you get around to burning 50GB on 4x theoretical speed.
And if the $1,200 price tag won’t land you in therapy, perhaps buying one and THEN finding out about the next news will. Pioneer has released its own combo blu-ray BD/HD DVD drive for a measly $299. But the catch is, it can read Blu-Ray media up to 5x speed but only burn regular DVD and CD media, so you shouldn’t lose much sleep over it. But still, with the price difference between $1,200 and $300 just to be able to watch HI-DEF powered content and not being able to burn in HD quality? That has got to spell serious commitment in my book.
And as if reading our collective minds, TDK – the largest manufacturer of Blu-Ray disks, has officially launched the world’s first inkjet printable Blu-ray disk. Say goodbye to your generic all white collection of cd’s. The new blu-ray high def disks are inkjet compatible on the label side, of course. You can now print customized text and graphics directly on the label side any way you want to reflect the funky side of your personality. Now somebody go out and find me a blank blu-ray disk for under $20.00. GP
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The Blu-ray is officially the industry standard for all things not entirely blue. Sony has once again released another blu-ray mini-me in the form of the Blu-Ray Media Jukebox Server HES-V1000. It is Sony’s answer to the Window Home Server, not that it was strutting around just begging to be cloned, but Sony has actually managed to do a one up against the WHS and made something that’s actually cool.
It has a 500 GIGABYTE hard drive worth 137 hours of high definition videos; 40,000 hours of music or photo counts. It also has a flash card reader for uploading purposes as well as the ubiquitous wired Ethernet connection for downloading straight to storage. You can also rip all your files and store it in the medium without losing quality.
If that still doesn’t rock your boat then maybe this will: inside the boxy blu arena is a 200 disk Blu-Ray slash DVD changer. In short, it can accommodate all the Blu-Ray movies that BlockBuster can muster. Finally, a place for all your coveted blu-ray Jessica Alba movie collection.
One more thing the Blu-Ray Server can do that Windows Home Server can not do? Be in stores in time for Christmas at $3,500 each. As for the people who are willing to dole out the cash, that would all depend on how deep Santa’s pockets are this year.
Apparently not one to be outdone either is Sharp Corporation. Sharp has announced its plans to launch another Blu-Ray storage media, this time on a much grander scale. Not quite the medium to rival a home server, the Blur-Ray high definition DVD recorder is currently the world’s largest storage media with a 1 terabyte hard disk drive.
That would be about 1,000 gigabytes right there, Einstein. That’s about twice the storage capacity of the Blu-Ray Media Jukebox Server but without the 200 disk changer. Best news so far is its December 1st release in Japan for about $2,600. All other details are under wraps, but with the release date getting closer, expect to see spec leaks in the near future.
As more movie aficionados are realizing the potentials of the hi-def experience, the Blu-Ray drives have become more market and pocket friendly. With the average Blu-Ray burner hovering above the $1,000 mark just a few months ago, they have recently settled down to well below the $500 mark to reflect the market value of Blu-ray technology, or perhaps this could just be another low-demand high-supply angle that’s being swept under the rug just like any other victim of technology.
Just a few weeks ago, Sony has launched its dual-layer blu-ray disk burner. Previous burners could only support single layer burning, that’s just 25GB on each blu-ray disk. But with a dual layer recording, it ante’s up the storage to 50GB. It currently runs well above $1,700 in the market, but with TDK innovating the 100 and 200 GB blu-ray disk, we can not help but wonder when this will succumb as just another willing technology victim. GP
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The Blu-Ray format is still largely in its infancy and with the relatively breakneck technological breakthroughs that the blu-ray has been gaining, its full potential remains a mystery.
With most blu-ray readers on the market limited to single and dual layer disk reading, the new developments being made by Hitachi should make other blu-ray hardware manufacturers scrambling for a piece of the pie.
Aside from the much hyped dual layered blu-ray disks currently out on the market, Hitachi has finally garnered another blu-ray first: a four layered disc with 100GB of data capacity. Although it is still far from being perfect, expect it to be the next big thing within a year, with perhaps a 200 GB blu-ray disc in another couple of years.
But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Even though the technology is perfected by Hitachi, what needs to be followed through is a blu-ray reader capable of playing these 4 layer blu-ray disks. Perhaps even a 4 layer blu-ray disk burner will not last too long after that. Then take into consideration, the necessary software to be able to play the newest high definition media. After all, what’s an expensive piece of paper without the necessary pencil?
With this news, this should render all “new†market blu-ray entries as obsolete, at least until they successfully put the new generation 4 layer blu-ray disks on public sale which shouldn’t be too long from now.
This would make Panasonic and Sony’s efforts to bring world class innovation in blu-ray cutting edge technology to naught, as they have just become yesterday’s news with the recent announcements of the 4 layer BD’s. Panasonic’s recently launched 1 terabyte blu-ray recorders might just as well be collector’s novelty, as its “cutting edge†dual layer support is incapable of doing more than just that.
At least Samsung has realized it own folly as well by canceling the release of some of its blu-ray players. They are still probably trying to make one that is capable of handling at least some future potential blu-ray disk breakthrough, and stave off obsoleteness for a few more months.
Sharp’s just-released BD-HDW15 & 30, 500gb and 1 terabyte single layer recorders respectively, should at least do well in the market for the next year. Only the BD-AC10 v2.1 will be able to support dual layer blu-rays, but neither does it have a hard drive. I guess the real question that burns is, once you pony up the dough for this, what will you do next year with your $3,000 pile of yesterday’s news? Every techie’s nightmare is every novelty buff’s dream.
But I guess we will cross that bridge when we get there. With all the new blu-ray mania cropping up every now and then, there’s really no hurry to jump in the blu-ray bandwagon. Blu-ray is here to stay, personally I am just waiting for the media hype to stabilize, at least until there’s a clear winner for the blu-ray multi-layer format race. GP
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