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Triple layer hd dvd approved
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http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/15127/DVD-Forum-Approves-Three-Layer-51GB-HD-DVDs/
HD DVD have the green light to use the triple layer, 51 gb discs. So with there not being an advantage of storage between blu ray and hd dvd does anyone think we will maybe see fox and disney coming over to the red side:)
HD DVD have the green light to use the triple layer, 51 gb discs. So with there not being an advantage of storage between blu ray and hd dvd does anyone think we will maybe see fox and disney coming over to the red side:)
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As for FOX and Disney they have little interest in the DRM light (compared to Blu-ray) HD DVD format, their continued delays everytime BD+ and AACS is cracked (normally days after the latest versions are rolled out) their release schedules collapse speaks volumes.
I suppose as a HD DVD owner I should be grateful, if FOX and Disney really supported Blu-ray they could steam roller this season through shear volume of releases.
Which in the real world is less important than the numbers suggest, but still makes a good sound bite for the masses:)
Again, the issues with backwards compatability that could plague HD DVD with triple layer will also exist with Blu-ray which even now can't support profile 1.1 across the entire existing userbase.
As for the new discs, it seems that it may only be the first gen players that may have a problem with the discs because gen 2 and 3 use the same drives. We wont know until the first 3xlayer disc arrives.
I have always said lets leave sony and universal stay on there sides, and all the other studios go neutral, because as the sony ceo says, it looks like we have a stalement.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071109/ap_on_hi_te/sony_ceo;_ylt=AszK2i8s9giB5KyWXCSXQZMjtBAF
the upscalers are probally winning at the moment
http://www.tdk.com/procommon/press/article.asp?site=corp&recid=140
so Blu-Ray is still ahead in capacity stakes.
At this point HD DVD do not have a 51 gig disk for sale, until then it's really irrelevant by the same reasoning:)
As I said the problems with changing the spec during a products lifetime is the issue of early generation hardware. Lets not forget that DVD could have added a third layer very easily (it was part of the initial spec as agreed) yet it never came to pass, wasn't really needed especially and would have been unplayable by the vast majority of players on the market.
Higher capacity optical media will certainly be valuable for PC use yet cheap hard disk and chip storage is making that less critical so perhaps another dead end for that line of optical development.
Blu-Ray was always quoted as being able to handle up to 8 layers,at 25GB per layer,which makes the 200GB being tested now.HD-DVD was originaly only 2 layers,which is why the first generation of players won't play the triple layer discs.
Once again until it's proven in the field not in a lab it's as pointless as the triple layer HD DVD, you can do all the R&D you want but unless it ends up in a consumer product then it's all paper talk purely for use in the PR spin that both factions are hard at work doing.
Having googled a bit there are some very old SONY interviews and news items talking about the scalability of Blu-ray media, they expect to see 100gig disks in 2007 says the 2004 dated item which also mentions a tech demonstration of an 8 layer disk.
All this sounds reasonable but then again Blu-ray was initially developed for High Def recording in Japan where 200gig would have been needed and since that collapsed thanks to DVR's we've seen no indication of anything other than dual layer on domestic movie players.
I would expect larger capacity BD-R's to appear years before movies were released on a larger capacity disk and in all honesty like DVD the extra layers will probably never be an issue for users.
Here's what was actually said, courtesy of the digitalbits:
Adding the context and the full quote "...at the moment" changes it completely. The actual inference is that the stalemate will not last.
You've got to love how both camps can seize on one aspect of a speech, the Warner favouring Blu-ray a few weeks ago and Sony mention stalemate. There is plenty is that speech that could be spun be either camp after all does anyone expect the whole truth from any suit:)
Thankfully UK forums are a little more level headed than US, reading some mainly US forums is both highly entertaining and shocking how the "cause" of each technology has generated some seriously deranged fans:)