No Blu Ray for Europe until 2007

July 10, 2006

The Inquirer is reporting that many Blu Ray manufacturers, including the normally quick to market Pioneer, won’t be ready to launch Blu Ray products in Europe until next year.
Blu Ray for Europe won’t be heavily promoted until next January’s CES in Las Vegas.
The IFA trade fair in Berlin this September was expected to be the [...]

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PS3 delaying Blu Ray burners

July 10, 2006

The Chinese-language Commercial Times is reporting that there are likely to be delays to the release of Blu Ray burners from the likes of LiteOn and BenQ, according to DigiTimes.
The reason? Sony are keeping back a “major” proportion of the low-yield Blu-ray laser diodes in readiness for the PS3 launch. Since the PS3 doesn’t launch [...]

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Blu Ray ripping already possible?

July 7, 2006

With most of the delay to next gen optical systems being down to security of the digital stream, a small oversight is already making it possible to make a direct copy of the content. The German computer magazine c’t discovered that it is possible to use screenshot functions of the player software to record the [...]

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Ricoh Blu Ray AND HD-DVD?

July 7, 2006

Forbes are relaying a story that Ricoh Co has developed a device that can read both the Blu-ray and HD DVD next-generation DVD formats. They claim the Nihon Keizai Shimbun as their source.
Ricoh’s new device overcomes these differences by optical means, the Nikkei said.

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LG’s Taiwanese speedy burner

July 7, 2006

So before the first gen Blu Ray burners hit the streets in any great numbers, we’re starting to see the first of the increased speed burners. LG Taiwan will be launching the GBW-H10N internal drive in china within the next few days (who’ll be buying those up then…?), at a price of $923, which is [...]

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BenQ BluRay burner for Europe

July 3, 2006

BenQ have unveiled their BluRay burner that will launch in Europe in August for 799 Euros (£555 currently).
BenQ is quick off the blocks, beating some of the much bigger companies involved with Blu Ray, and at a better price-point than those other manufacturers have discussed.
No news on whether this is just a PC data-writing solution, [...]

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Plextor starts turning Blu

June 29, 2006

Renowned CD and DVD burner supplier Plextor have announced their first Blu Ray burner, due in September. The PX-B900A is an internal unit for PCs and will support both single- and dual-layer recordable and rewriteable media.
Media and format support is good, with BD-R, BD-RE, DVD-RAM, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW (single and dual layer) and CD-R/RW. That’s a [...]

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Sony waits until October

June 28, 2006

Sony have pushed back the US launch of their Blu Ray player, the BDP-S1 until October. Originally due with the first batch of Blu Ray titles (around now), the player was delayed until July and then August and now October. Apparently they are just not happy with aspects of the software.
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Blu-ray Disc Duplication System

June 23, 2006

No sooner does the Pioneer drive ship, than someone rips the guts out of it. Primera have released the kind-of-singing, kind-of-dancing Bravo XR-Blu Disc Publisher. This big box takes 50 (single layer, 25Gb) Blu Ray discs at a time, and with the natty robotics, will select a blank, burn it, move it over to the [...]

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Pioneer Blu Ray Burner starts shipping

June 22, 2006

Pioneer always seem to be there at the leading edge of new burners - we still have a rather well behaved A03 DVD burner here - and it’s no surprise that their Blu Ray burner is now out and ready to buy.
The BDR-101A is a 2 speed Blu-ray recorder for PCs. Don’t be put off [...]

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