News of Blu-ray Disc Drives

Regarding this article posted also on CDRLabs' front page:
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050713/135010.html

Although (as Ian mentioned on the front page) this poll is quite likely sponsered by the Blu Ray Disc Association (or whatever they're called), from my own experiences, I don't find the results hard to believe at all. Most of the people I know could care less about HDDVD, and those who do, only care about what movies will ...

Am I ever ready for this . . . InPhase

I'm sure it'll be $10K or more, but so was the first DVD-R. By 2010 we'll all have one. :D

1.5mm thick, how does that compare to a DVD?

I want one of those BenQ BW1000's!! Any word on a street date yet?
Better still, what's going on with those holographic drives? Last I heard a few major disc manufactures had jumped on board...

Saw this on the web....interesting this HD DVD and Blue Ray thing

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnf ... _db002.htm

Not just movie studios....now JVC

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118136,00.asp


Man the DVD HD camp is sloooooow...kind of makes you wonder how it ever got off the ground to begin with.

Blue Ray is slowly getting a strangle-hold

From AV Watch:

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

BD-R: 2x
BD-R RE (Double Layer): 2x
DVD±R: 8x
DVD±RW: 4x
DVD-R DL: 2.4x

Here is an article dealing with the console wars but.....at the end read the snippit about Sony and Blu-Ray. :wink:

Xbox Successor in Late 2005
Microsoft shooting for a November time frame, say sources.
June 15, 2004 - It appears that Microsoft, which launched Xbox in late 2001 after Sony's PlayStation 2 and Nintendo's GameCube consoles, will be the first company to unleash its next-generation home ...

All I can say is: About #$!@ time! Now hurry and get us the stupid drives!

I'll still need a 15-pack to back up my system...discs better be cheap.
And whatever happened to the holographic discs mentioned on this site awhile ago?