News of Blu-ray Disc Drives

This is an interesting article:
http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/10/28/hp_to ... index.html

Since Intel and Microsoft have pledged allegiance to HD-DVD, Hewlett-Packard has reconsidered, and has threatened that if Mandatory Managed Copy support and iHD interactive layer are not to be part of Blu-ray, it will change its official stance to neutral and begin supporting HD-DVD.

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20051020006021&newsLang=en

Warner Bros. Joins Blu-ray Disc Association and Will Release Its Films on Next Generation Blu-ray High Definition Optical Media Disc

BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 2005--Warner Bros. Entertainment and its home entertainment division Warner Home Video, which distributes the largest film library of any studio, today announced it has joined the board of directors of the Blu-ray Disc Association and will release its films on the Blu-ray format.

Warner Home Video will release titles on ...

This is an interesting read..

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/20/business/dvd.php

Toshiba is kind of making a deal with the devil by giving HD DVD technology to the Chinese. Since they too make HD DVD players, they could easily screw themselves by doing this. Then again, this is a great way to get HD DVD to the masses and compete with the zillions of PS3's that will be out there next year.

So, does anyone think that Blu-ray will adopt them?

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press ... 1019b.html

If Blu-ray is already the winner (at least according to some dude at Forrester Research :roll: ), why would they bother?

According to this article, AOpen plans to introduced a PC based Blu-ray drive next month.

http://www.itp.net/news/details.php?id=18355&category=

Personally, I think AOpen is being overly optomistic. Either that or they're taking a page from ATI's book by doing a paper launch. :wink:

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ ... _tc024.htm

It seems that warner might change sides which might be a bad case for HD-DVD because the companny oweing some DVD releated patents.

From AV Watch:

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/ ... 5/pana.htm



Panasonic also has a press release about them:

Http: //panasonic.co.jp/corp/news/official.data/data.dir/jn051005-2/jn051005-2.html? Ref=news

Just when you thought HLDS couldn't add support for any more formats to their Super Multi drives...

http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2005 ... atec01.htm

Storage system, the Blu-ray Disk (the BD) reading (BD-ROM), entry (the BD-R and the BD-RE) with corresponded to the record of the DVD/CD / playback " blue ray super multiple drive " " GBW-H10N " and, the portable player of animated picture and the music which utilize removable HDD ...

Funny that I didn't see this news on any optical media sites but on quite some gameing sites computer it can be found and no it's not old.

According to Toshiba there sill is a possibility for a unified format up to the end of this year.


http://www.gamesindustry.biz/news.php?aid=11942

Taken from here:

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/ ... atec02.htm

NEC exhibits HD DVD-ROM drive " HR-1100CA ". We to plan the sale within year, in the NEC make PC and the Toshiba HD DVD player et cetera loading schedule. Being the almost same as those which are displayed in IFA 2005, as for interface the IDE/ATAPI. It can do the entry of the DVD±R/RW and the CD-R/RW et cetera, but it cannot ...