[kpzbee]

I found this on CNET.


News : Personal technology : Article


JVC gets behind Blu-ray effort

By Staff, CNETAsia

Tuesday, October 12 2004 4:07 PM

The company yesterday announced it has joined the Blu-Ray Disc Association, an industry consortium hoping to make the Blu-ray disc a widely-accepted format for high-definition optical storage.


Using blue lasers, Blue-ray discs can store a lot more data compared with today's DVDs, which rely on red-laser technology. The Blue-ray format is backed by a group of 13 companies including founders Sony, Sharp, Hitachi and LG Electronics. PC behemoths Hewlett-Packard and Dell joined the fold in January this year, with JVC now becoming the group's newest member.


Besides Blu-ray, another format called HD DVD, backed by firms like Sanyo, NEC and Toshiba, is also battling to replace the modern-day DVD. The two competing formats are currently incompatible.


"We joined the Blu-ray Disc Association because Blue-Ray Disc is the better technology for content owners and consumers," Masahiko Tsurata, JVC's associate director of corporate research and development, said in a statement.

 

[Kelson]

Anyone know which of the 2, Blu-Ray or HD DVD is backward compatible with current DVD. Right now I can play CDs as well as DVDs on my player. I would want any new Hi-Def DVD player to play those as well.


I'm just a consumer. If it looks like a disc, I expect 1 player to play them all -- that is, if you want me to buy it.

 

[dsmith901]

No surprise about JVC, they are a sister company to Panasonic, one of the main players behind Blu-Ray recording.


HD-DVD (Toshiba) is supposed to be backward compabible with current DVD technology, and thus easier to integrate into existing production. That does not mean a HD-DVD disc would play on current DVD players, it means a HD-DVD player would play current DVDs. Blu-Ray claims they can do the same thing by using two lasers, so I am not sure that is a big issue. It is the cheaper cost to produce HD-DVDs using current production facilities that is the big advantage to that technology. Blu-Ray disc production would require new facilities, at considerable cost, both for disc production and, I believe, to a lesser extent, for player production.



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[KostyaNP]

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Originally posted by Kelson (...)I'm just a consumer. If it looks like a disc, I expect 1 player to play them all -- that is, if you want me to buy it.

Yeah, I'd like that, too... just one player... the perfect one... AudioCD, this book and that book, CD-R, CD-RW, data CD, VideoCD, SuperVideoCD, MiniDVD, DivX, MPEG, JPEG, Kodak, data, DVDvideo, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, SACD, DVDaudio and on and on and on... and now HDDVD and BVD... "don't exist, major" .

 

[Troy LaMont]

Good news but it's been posted already on the appropriate HDTV Recorders forum and the Digital Software forum.


Troy

 

[SBrudzinsky]

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Originally posted by KostyaNP Yeah, I'd like that, too... just one player... the perfect one... AudioCD, this book and that book, CD-R, CD-RW, data CD, VideoCD, SuperVideoCD, MiniDVD, DivX, MPEG, JPEG, Kodak, data, DVDvideo, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, SACD, DVDaudio and on and on and on... and now HDDVD and BVD... "don't exist, major" .

Konstantin,

What did you mean by saying "data CD"?

Using DVD player as an external DVD-ROM for PC?

 

[Kelson]

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Originally posted by KostyaNP Yeah, I'd like that, too... just one player... the perfect one... AudioCD, this book and that book, CD-R, CD-RW, data CD, VideoCD, SuperVideoCD, MiniDVD, DivX, MPEG, JPEG, Kodak, data, DVDvideo, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, SACD, DVDaudio and on and on and on... and now HDDVD and BVD... "don't exist, major" .

I'll bet you Sony puts it out first.

 

[SBrudzinsky]

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Originally posted by Kelson I'll bet you Sony puts it out first.

I'll bet you "no-name" manufacturer like RJTeck or similar to such will put it out first.

 

[KostyaNP]

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Originally posted by SBrudzinsky Konstantin, What did you mean by saying "data CD"? Using DVD player as an external DVD-ROM for PC?

I meant CD with random-access filesystem, as opposite to sequential access (ISO?), can't remember the name, you know - the one we used to create with EazyCD Creator, with Windows Explorer drag-drop working on it. One can store, say, MP3 files on it and, as far as I know, there is no standalone player capable of reading this filesystem. Not that it' terribly important in this case, of course, but nevertheless - sorry for being less then perfectly precize .


By the way, how do you know my full name, if I may ask?


Edited to add: just now, trying to memorize these CD-related terms, I realized how many years had passed since I used a CD last time... time's flying, it's all DVD now.

 

[KostyaNP]

I'll bet such a player will never exist.

 

[SBrudzinsky]

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Originally posted by KostyaNP I meant CD with random-access filesystem, as opposite to sequential access (ISO?), can't remember the name, you know -

UDF format?

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Originally posted by KostyaNP ... By the way, how do you know my full name, if I may ask?

It is very simple Dr. Watson.

In Eastern Europe name Kostya is a short name to Konstantin

 

[KostyaNP]

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Originally posted by SBrudzinsky UDF format?

Yeah, that's the one.

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Originally posted by SBrudzinsky It is very simple Dr. Watson. In Eastern Europe name Kostya is a short name to Konstantin

That figures. Ahem... haven't we, by any chance, met before, I mean in virtuality?

 

[SBrudzinsky]

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Originally posted by KostyaNP ...That figures. Ahem... haven't we, by any chance, met before, I mean in virtuality?

Hmmm....

Nope, I do not think so. I mean I do not remember anyone with the name Kostya I have ever virtually communicate with. I have coworker from Russia who's name Constantine and he prefers to call me Kostik