So it’s finally happened, the format wars are over and some camp has lost several billion dollars. The loser is HD DVD. They already were heading towards defeat when several studios switch to the other camp, but the largest and probably the fatal blow came when Walmart announced that they would be phasing out HD [...] Read more »
DigiTimes has reported that manufacturers of Blu-ray and HD-DVD drives have had to cut back on production because of a serious shortage of blue laser diodes. This means that the expected pre-Holiday flood of such devices onto the consumer market may not happen. DigiTimes is also claiming that Sony, which is one of a handful of companies making the [...] Read more »
“Japan’s Dai Nippon Printing Co. (DNP) is set to make the country even more futuristic this fall when they release their transparent “Crystal Illusion Screen” equipped with NXT’s where’s-that-sound-coming-from SoundVu technology…”
More at Engadget.com
Well, just when I thought Japan couldn’t get any more futuristic, I was proved wrong. If you read the preview from Engadget and [...] Read more »
“If you can look past the circa-1999 Cinema Display design and the 4:3 aspect ratio, OPPO Digital’s new LT-2007 LCD TV/DVD Player Combo doesn’t look too incredibly shabby. Beyond the obvious DVD playback provided by the display’s base, there are VGA, Component and S-Video inputs for use with a general selection of 480i/p, 720p and [...] Read more »
-->“Integra introduced its Viiv-based NVS-.7.7 Media Center PC today, aiming it squarely at custom installers who want to get their customers up and running with minimum hassle. They’ll have to pay for that convenience, of course — an even three grand — but that’ll buy ‘em a pretty beefy system, including a 2.8 GHz Pentium [...] Read more »
Well, just when I thought HDTVs couldn’t get bigger, Mitsubishi proved me wrong. They constructed a 8,066 square-foot display in at the Tokyo Racecourse in Japan.
More details at: Engadget and HD Beat
Of course if you want one, it will burn a $28 million hole in your wallet. But for someone like Bill Gates who has [...] Read more »
“Should TDK achieve their target, this new Blu-ray disc will offer 4 times the capacity of the current largest BDs. We reckon this monumental ambition will be achieved soon, as TDK had already unveiled a 100GB prototype last May.”Full Article at Ubergizmo.
Wow man, that is insane! And I thought the capacity Blu-ray disks currently offered [...] Read more »
Engadget.com
Well here is something interesting. Apparently Hitachi has made DVD discs that are very thin, about 92 micrometers thick that can hold 9.4 gb. If you stack a bunch of them together, you can get a 1 terabyte optical disk array that is still a reasonable size. More at the Engadget.com link above. Read more »
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