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wei2008
04-26-07, 04:36 PM
From Stor-age.com

It was release last week at Beijing's IDF2007, no price point, check it out:

http://www.stor-age.com/resources/89CB574E-7347-4010-A8BB-592C626A75EC/MTK-Blu.jpg


Original Link (in Chinese): http://www.stor-age.com/dongtai/xinpin/htm2007/07042410UKZN.asp

Edited: These are for chipset, MT1929/MT1928.
JE3146
04-26-07, 04:40 PM
This is looking more and more like DVD -/+R everyday...

Awesome find.
hmurchison
04-26-07, 06:11 PM
Very cool. I agree with JE3146

It's looking like manufacturers will just start looking for Univeral mechanisms. Makes the most sense really if we're talking about playback only needs. Recorders will be a another story ..they'll probably take until 2008 before we get word of potential choices.
user4avsforum
04-26-07, 09:14 PM
From Stor-age.com
It was release last week at Beijing's IDF2007, no price point, check it out:

Released or announced? I assume announced, either way great news.
wei2008
04-26-07, 11:03 PM
Released or announced? I assume announced, either way great news.

It is announced.
Paul Bigelow
04-30-07, 12:59 AM
MediaTek makes a decent chip as well, so good news there.
jsl_80
04-30-07, 02:30 PM
It was release last week at Beijing's IDF2007, no price point, check it out:
http://www.stor-age.com/dongtai/xinpin/htm2007/07042410UKZN.asp
It's not a drive, just a chipset (Mediatek doesn't make complete drives). Lite-On and TSST are the biggest ODD makers using Mediatek chipsets. Lite-On has however no plans to release a BD/HD DVD combo drive until next year (and is btw currently using Philips chipset in its BD writer). I guess it's possible that the drive in Samsung's coming dual format player will use it though.
wei2008
04-30-07, 04:07 PM
It's not a drive, just a chipset (Mediatek doesn't make complete drives). Lite-On and TSST are the biggest ODD makers using Mediatek chipsets. Lite-On has however no plans to release a BD/HD DVD combo drive until next year (and is btw currently using Philips chipset in its BD writer). I guess it's possible that the drive in Samsung's coming dual format player will use it though.

Thanks, corrected.
rdjam
05-10-07, 09:06 AM
I'm confused.

It looks very much like they are talking about a drive, but the stories all say it is a chipset, true.

They've listed 6x read speeds for both HD and BR. That is very fast for both formats.

Looks like the drives shown are reference designs, so it shouldn't be at all difficult to put in production fast.

I want that puppy!