Disney to go with Blu-Ray
 

http://www.bizjournals.com/losangele...ml?jst=b_ln_hl

heath

A lot of studios have pledged their support for a camp, see:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthrea...threadid=35640

TDK brings Blu-Ray to 100 gigs
 

If you encode MPEG4 it will not take long and we'll have 1.8 inch high def DVDs, just like UMD or what you call discs in Playstation Portable.

Radek

Your Blue-ray player may be locked !
 

Awww, check this out. The Blue-Ray disc folks want you to have an Internet
connection for media authenticity. In the case of authentification failure,
they'll lock up your player. Yeah, like, I'll buy one of those !

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews...10_131820.html
Blu-ray makes unexpected, three-way DRM choice for high-def DVD

Scott M Fulton III

August 10, 2005 - 13:18 EST

Hollywood (CA) - In an announcement last night, the Blu-ray Disc Association, led by Sony, representing one of two competing high-definition DVD formats, stated it will simultaneously embrace digital watermarking, programmable cryptography, and a self-destruct code for Blu-ray disc players.

like everythign else, some clever guy in asia will reverse engineer it and break through the locking codes by hacking the bios of the unit to accept any disc thats thrown in it.. ...

im not too fussed, hell they did it with PS2, which was "unchippable" ... Not to mention the Xbox and even gamecube... whats to stop them doing it for any other unit?

these copy protection schemes DONT work.. when will they realise that? Instead, lower the prices and people WONT NEED to copy

>these copy protection schemes DONT work.. when will they realise that? >Instead, lower the prices and people WONT NEED to copy[/QUOTE]

I can't resist.

Ok. How low should the price be ? DVDs can be had for $10 at Walmart if you're willing to wait a few years. New releases cost $20, or $13 if you're willing to buy a used disk.

The price that people wnat to pay is only the cost of the media, although obviously, they're paying more than that right now. I've been through this process with ORIGINAL video material. There is no other source for this material, yet my friends want a copy.

Most of my computer-savvy friends think that all CD-Rs and DVD-Rs cost $0.20/each. When I tell them that the rest of the materials (plastic box, sheet of glossy photo paper, and ink to print on the disk and photo paper) cost me about $3/disk, they don't believe it. This doesn't even
involve the items used to burn and print the disk. DVD-burners and printers
don't last forever.

Great DVD burners are cheap, but a few years ago, I bought my first DVD burner for $400. No one understood why I paid that much money when CD burners were $60. A good photo printer costs about $400 and $100 for ink replacement.

Consumers do not value intellectual property, largely because it is cheap and easy to steal. Air is free. The radio and TV are "free". And, so should be music and movies, the masses think. The record and movie industries kinda dug themselves in a hole when they decided to reduce their own duplication costs.

The only reason a record
industry existed was that personal duplication was prohibitively expensive.
People are currently "paying" for DVDs. The cost is about $4 for a rental,
excluding the cost to transport the disk but including the selection experience.

Pioneer shows Blu-ray DVD burner for PC
 

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews...29_102600.html

Piuoneer shows Blu-ray DVD burner for PC

By Akihabara News Japan

August 29, 2005 - 10:26 EST

Would you believe me if I tell you that there is a Pioneer DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-+DL and BR (Blu-ray) burner and that it's called BRD-101A? Well, you'd better, and here's the proof! A Korean site (that gets its news from a Chinese site) provides us pictures that this internal PC Blu-ray DVD burner really exists. Noteworthy is that this burner does not support CD's and DVD-RAM's.

Not sure I want to know the price of that DVD recorder. Bleeding edge is never cheap. (That's why it's called bleeding edge. It bleeds your wallet. <g>)

Pioneer to sell Blu-Ray burner?
 

http://news.com.com/Pioneer+to+sell+...l?tag=nefd.pop

heath

No big suprise as there has to be a factory cranking out millions of BluRay drives for the Sony PS3 and I do mean millions. I'm just suprised by the HD-DVD comment as last I heard they did not even have a final HD-DVD spec.

Still more on the Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD war
 

http://news.com.com/Fiddling+with+fo...l?tag=nefd.top

heath

Ok The article lost me with the $1,000 players. The Sony PS3 will play Blu-Ray with estimates of launch price ranging from $299 to $399 US.

And that's what will help things. I read in OXM (Official Xbox Magazine) the Xbox head in Japan wants the Xbox 360 to play back HD DVDs, but continue to use regular DVDs to put the HD games on...

heath

Sony announces 20 movies on Blu-ray disc
 

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060104/law072.html?.v=38

There were some other studios that announced Blu-Ray movies, but the Blu-Ray players won't be out for several more months.

Blu-Ray Blues
 

http://www.forbes.com/technology/ent...aystation.html

Ulead DVD Movie Factory 5 offer HD DVD and Blu-Ray Disc support.
 

The first consumer authoring software to offer HD DVD and Blu-Ray Disc support. Capture, edit, author and burn HD content for the ultimate in picture and sound quality.
http://www.ulead.com/dmf/runme.htm
trial 81MB _http://ftp.ulead.com.tw/pub/Trial/Dmf5/dmf5_trialstn_e.exe

Sony unvails blu-ray player to ship July
 

Sony will ship the BDP-S1 Blu-ray player at a price around $1000. It'll play standard DV and uses HDMI connections to enhance the image.

Sony Vaio laptops will also feature Blu-ray drives. (Not sure if it offers burning capabilities.)

The BWU-100A is an internal drive that can burn a 25GB blu-ray disc in about 30 minutes as well as burn standard dvds. The price of this drive has not been announced yet.

Sony will do Blu-Ray demos at 32 Sony Style retail stores and is running a pre-launch Blu-Ray campaign at sonystyle.com

more info can be found from: http://www.homemediaretailing.com/in...=2&newsid=8792

Oh to be able to burn Blu-Ray or HD-DVD's!

Worlds first note book with Blue Ray Burner
 

Sony releases worlds first note book computer with blue ray burner to sell later this summer. I wonder if it will edit 24p and how powerful it will really be, I did not see spec's on this system.
http://160.33.129.15/en/press_room/c...ase/22113.html

Editing doesn't have much to do with the hardware, that's mainly a software
thing. For discussion / rumours etc. on the laptop continue in the already
existing thread in our industry news forum:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=67519

CompUSA to sell Blu-Ray laptops, etc.
 

I saw this in my inbox.

hwm

Z1 footage in Blu-ray Disc
 

I am goning to edit my Z1 footage by Vegas and then put the file in Blu-ray disc. Hopefully, 2 hour 1080i footage could be stored in a 25GB Blu-ray disc.

My question is :
Could I play back this Blu-ray disc by future Blu-ray desk player?

Do I need a authoring software to output my 1080i file and then burn this file to Blu-ray disc?

I heard that Canopus Edius Pro is able to edit Z1 footage and then output the file with its authoring feature so that the file could be played back by future Blu-ray desk player. Is it correct?

Edius Pro can edit and output 1080i HDV footage which should be trasferrable to Blu-ray discs in the future, but Edius doesn't currently support Blu-ray compatible disc authoring. Blu-ray authoring tools from any company are still in final development stages, so it may be a few more months before you can burn a fully playable Blu-ray disc.

Pioneer to make Blu-Ray recorders
 

http://www.forbes.com/technology/fee...fx2791613.html

hwm

Blu-Ray today (6/20/06), players 6/25/06
 

http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=23649

heath

Bluray Experience
 

Hey, don't know if this is the right place to post this, might have been the DVD section, but oh well.

Okay, earlier today my family and I were taking some visiting relatives around the new Ceasar's Palace Forum section here in Las Vegas and I decided to step into the SonyStyle store they had there, primarily to look at their 1080p HDTVs. As I walk in, I start looking around at all the "Click" promo stuff all around and the DVD-looking cases with blue tops catch my eye. I go over to look and, yes, they're Bluray movies, pretty good lineup too. I didn't know if they had really come out yet or not, now I know. I then asked one of the people there if they had any of the movies playing on the TVs and they had a Bluray demo they were showing and I could watch a little bit of one of the movies on their Bluray-capable laptops there. So I did and House of Flying Daggers probably wasn't the best movie to show on a cheesy VAIO laptop screen, looked pretty noisy to me. So then I go to look at the demo and I'm just blown away by the difference in image quality. Granted, they were showing me this on one of their top 1080p televisions, but in any case it looked cool.

The big difference I noticed was in background images and minor details. For instance, the demo showed an SD and HD comparison of the Hatori Hanzo scene from "Kill Bill". There was a curtain next to The Bride that showed extra folds and whisps in the HD that were not apparent in the SD DVD version, in the background the swords on the wall rack were more visible as well, there was also a lot less noise in the overall image.

Looking at the prices for the Bluray titles currently available, it was $30, but that's probably the SonyStyle pricing hike so it would be about $20-25 at Best Buy or somewhere else, basic new DVD pricing. They had recordable discs as well, $25.99 for a 25gb disc. Not bad, reminds me of the first DVD+RW discs back when we got recordable DVDs for the first time.

I haven't seen any HD-DVD displays up and running anywhere, maybe they'll have something at Fry's when I go this weekend. But in any case, Bluray is looking pretty darn good. Does anybody else have any opinions on this subject? Has anybody seen both and already made their own comparisons?

I saw HD-DVD at my local Best Buy, my only point of reference was the HD I get off of my Satellite dish and my Sony HDV camera and it was certainly a cleaner picture than either of those.

Sony delays their Blu-Ray player
 

http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=23707

hwm

Blu Ray for Film Festivals
 

I am writing a letter to movie makers all over Brazil as to decide on the best option
cost wise for a HD video format to be chosen as a standard in Brazil´s Film festivals. So
far the festivals here welcome video. But they are usually displayed in DVDs and Betacam.
These formats are far from ideal to be projected on a large screen. Initially I believe
Blu Ray would be an option if we compare to HDCAM or DVCPRO HD as the costs of
copying tapes and renting a player are not everyone´s cup of tea. I also welcome
sugestions on Instalation projectors to go along with. Thank you all in advance this site
is amazing.

Alexandre

Here in the states it mostly DVD, Beta, and Digibeta(at least at the fesivals I've been to). The problem with migrating to BR is that nobody really has it yet. As far as Beta vs BR HD that's tough. Digibeta is like the ultimate evolution of SD, Blue Ray is going to use a heavy compression like mpeg2 but be HD. I think that if BR supported a format like DVCPROHD I'd choose BR, but it doensn't and for now digibeta looks awesome.

Interesting http://www.samsung.com/Products/DVDP...D_HD960XAA.asp

Steven,

I saw that at Circuit City a little while ago. Two years ago, they had a DVD player that helped make DVDs with higher bit rates or masted in HD before going to SD look better. Didn't look any better to me (I bought and returned one and the tests were inconclusive to me).

heath

Could this bridge the gap between HD DVD and Blu Ray?
 

http://news.com.com/2061-10801_3-609...tml?tag=txt%22

hwm

Yes, this could bridge the gap just fine.... Ricoh's device isn't a complete player mechanism itself, but does allow for the construction of a player that can re-focus the laser as needed to read HD-DVD, DVD and CD formats in addition to BluRay. It would be up to Sony and Toshiba to both issue licenses for their formats to any device/player that uses Ricoh's new component. If a company can accomplish that (obtain licenses for both formats for a player device), then universal players will become a reality.

...Now if we examine the unpleasant truth, LG as well as two other technology companies have developed universal player mechanisms already and thus far, Sony has refused to grant BluRay licenses to these devices. While it may be against the law for Sony to disallow a license because the device is or could also be licensed for a competing format, that doesn't mean they can't still disallow a license and simply state some other bogus reason like they don't feel it's of sufficeint quality or they don't approve of some manufacturing method of an individual part, etc..

So in other words we'll have to wait for the Chinese to step up to the plate with universal players as they don't particularly have much interest in licenses.

If that happens it could be just whats needed to push Sony and Toshiba into granting legal licenses.

WB officially on board with Blu Ray!
 

http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=23971

hwm

Sonic announces Blu Ray support
 

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/...17&newsLang=en

hwm

Has Bluray won already? Where's the HD-DVD support announcements?

Nope. Sonic will support both.

http://www.sonic.com/about/press/new.../01/hddvd.aspx