Sun Microsystems’s Java technology will be built into Blu-ray DVD players, executives said on Monday during Sun’s JavaOne trade show, a development that advances the technology in the consumer electronics market for which Sun originally developed the software.
‘Java will be used for control menus, interactive features, network services and games,’ said Yasushi Nishimura, director of Panasonic’s Research and Development Company of America. ‘This means that all Blu-ray Disc player devices will be shipped equipped with Java.’” Next stop, annoying Flash intros.
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“The initial shipments of Xbox 360 will be based on today’s DVD format,” said Gates. “We are looking at whether future versions of Xbox 360 will incorporate an additional capability of an HD-DVD player or something else.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Microsoft and Toshiba are to move to strengthen an alliance that has seen them exchange innovations. The closer relationship may stretch as far the development of HD-DVD players and recorders using the Microsoft CE operating system. Read the rest of this entry »
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Maxell Corporation of America, the technology and marketing leader in advanced recordable media products, is now shipping double-layer DVD+R media, delivering an 80 percent capacity boost for a broad range of data storage, multimedia and video applications. This latest recordable media breakthrough from Maxell increases per-disc capacity on a single side to 8.5 gigabytes, supporting high-capacity backup applications. One double-layer DVD+R will hold up to four hours of DVD-quality video, 16 hours of VHS-quality video, approximately one hour of high-definition video, or more than four million pages of text - the equivalent of more than 13,000 300-page books. Read the rest of this entry »
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The quality of the blanks is not, contrary to common opinion, relative to the purchase price. Good blanks are available at 8x burning speeds starting at 60 cents. For instance, discs from Taiwan and India sometimes offer as much quality as brands from Japan. No wonder: after all, manufacturers from less expensive production sites sometimes supply blanks to Japanese brands and have gained their expertise in the meantime. Read the rest of this entry »
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Executives at Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp., which are offering competing standards for next-generation DVDs, say they will push ahead with their own formats, extending a stalemate in talks to create a unified version.
Sony and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., which developed the Blu-ray disc, have been negotiating with Toshiba to create a single standard for new DVDs that can store more high-definition pictures and other content than existing DVDs. Toshiba, along with NEC Corp., is backing the HD DVD disc format. Read the rest of this entry »
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The future of DVD recording is up in the air, after Sony claimed that talks between rival factions pushing the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD factions have collapsed. Read the rest of this entry »
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Sony, Matsushita and Toshiba haven’t given up yet on an unified blue laser disc format. Sony and Matsushita back the Blu-ray format and Toshiba backs the rival HD-DVD format.
Both formats should give the storage required for High Defenition video but are competing like the current DVD-R and DVD+R camp. Sony sees this as a disadvantage for the consumer and aims for one unified format, with no luck sofar.
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I won’t recap the sad history of the Sony vs. Toshiba, Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD Wars of DVD Succession, because I’ve covered it elsewhere. After Toshiba fired back at Blu-Ray with a HD-DVD capacity increase, it became pretty clear that they were deadly serious about fighting to the finish. Read the rest of this entry »
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High density digital versatile disc is a digital optical media format which is being developed. HD DVD is similar to the competing Blu-ray Disc. It is currently in a format war with the Blu ray disc proposed by the Blu ray disc association. Read the rest of this entry »
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