Blu-ray Disc Association Announces BDXL and IH-BD Specs
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 8:20 amIt looks like the latest and greatest Blu-ray players are already obsolete. The BDA announced the BDXL and IH-BD specifications, which probably are not going to be compatible with current players.
http://www.cdrlabs.com/News/blu-ray-dis ... ation.html
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http://www.cdrlabs.com/News/blu-ray-dis ... ation.html
The BDXL specification, which is targeted primarily at commercial segments such as broadcasting, medical and document imaging enterprises with significant archiving needs, will provide customers with write-once options on 100GB and 128GB capacity discs and rewritable capability on 100GB discs. The discs reach these capacities by incorporating three to four recordable layers. A consumer version of BDXL is also expected, particularly in those regions where BD recorders have achieved broad consumer acceptance.
The Intra-Hybrid Blu-ray Disc (IH-BD) incorporates a single BD-ROM layer and a single BD-RE layer so as to enable the user to view, but not overwrite, critical published data while providing the flexibility to include relevant personal data on the same physical disc. This allows for consumer specific applications where combining published content with related user data on a convenient, single volume is desirable. Both the ROM and the RE layers on IH-BD discs provide 25GB of capacity.
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Because both BDXL and IH-BD are specially designed formats with specific market segments in mind, newly-designed hardware is required to play back or record BDXL or IH-BD media.
