Sony starts with Blu-ray shipping
Sony has begun shipping its 25GB single layer Blu-ray Disc recording media in America. In addition, the company announced that it will be launching a dual layer 50GB capacity disc is set to debut in June. “Sony knows Blu-ray technology like no other company,” said Mike Lucas, director of marketing for Sony Electronics’ Media and Application Solutions Division, which is handy as it developed the technology. Sony’s Blu-ray media also supports a 2x recording speed, which provides a high data transfer rate of up to 72 Mbps, making it ideal for high-definition video recording and data storage applications.
In addition to media, Sony will soon offer a wide range of Blu-ray Disc devices, including a Blu-ray Disc player, VAIO desktop and notebook computers, and an internal Blu-ray Disc drive. The BD-R (write-once) 25GB and BD-RE (rewritable) 25GB recording media have suggested retail prices of $20 and $25, respectively. The soon to come BD-R 50GB and BD-RE 50GB recording media will have suggested retail prices of $48 and $60, respectively. On the other hand, Sony delayed the shipment of first high resolution movies on Blu-ray discs. The company had originally planned to ship eight movie titles on May 23 and seven more on June 13. Now the initial eight titles will ship on June 20 while a new launch date for the latter seven has not been decided. Now we need to wait only few months or years till the prices become affordable also for normal customers. The idea of burning half of my drive on one disc is pretty cool…
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Well, now all we have to do is wait for those 200 GB discs to become affordable for the rich people… A few months ago I read a little article about it. It didn’t say anything about the technology, just that it excisted but the player to play these discs would cost you around €10.000 so… That’s not even affordable for rich people. Who the hell would pay such a rediculous amount of money for 4 Blue-Ray discs?
In my opinion, it will be cheaper soon just business exploits rich people. Then they will decrease prices gradually.
Hmm this is one of those things that i think i will wait and see how it goes before buying.
I wonder how much it world cost for an internal Blue-Ray Disc Drive which fully support write once and re-writeable media & if they support Normal dvd Media for a PC..
As scraggy sais… Thata allways the deal, especially in the high-tech industry. But;
The porn industry havn’t yet said YES to the Blue-Ray media, hence I’m confused that Sony allready made this official. I think this is a trick to let people (not commoners, but those in charge here) know that “we allready have the products ready to go, choose us!”.
Second, the prices of these gadets surely will drop the minute the pornindustry, if they do that is, settle down with this standard. Much faster than we think.
Yeah I read that article about the porn industry being the decisivefactor in the battle of HD-DVD and Blue-Ray… Kinda redicukous but I guess that’s what yu get for living in the 21st century.
Well, better the 21st century with porn, than the 15th century with… goats?
No wonder that we constantly are reminded of the old saying “Sex sells…”. This is just another proof of it.