BR/HD-DVD Thread

[passerby]

Slightly related, slightly OT.

I know several studios are already working on next gen. So is there any unofficial/official standard for the TV format for next-gen yet? As an analogy, every PS2 game supports mono audio as the 'minimal base', but all definitely have the stereo audio option. I'm sure good-ol PAL/NTSC will still exist as the 'minimal base' option in every next-gen title. What other video format will 'definitely' be available?

Unless this hasn't been agreed upon yet, or there's no such official/unofficial requirement.

 

[cthellis42]

Disney was a latecomer to DVD. It tried to back DivX but eventually came to its senses. However, Disney won't have Pixar films to sell after one more film and Pixar sold a lot of DVDs for Disney.

I thought they'd reconciled? Or did that fall through as well?

 

[Deepak]

Blu-Ray Disc Association Launches With More Than 70 Companies

"Currently, the Blu-ray Disc Association's Board of Directors consists of: Dell Inc.; Hewlett Packard Company; Hitachi, Ltd.; LG Electronics Inc.; Mitsubishi Electric Corporation; Panasonic (Matsushita Electric); Pioneer Corporation; Royal Philips Electronics; Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.; Sharp Corporation; Sony Corporation; TDK Corporation; and Thomson.

New Members Include:

-- Board of Directors: Twentieth Century Fox.

-- Contributors: Canon Inc., CMC Magnetics Corporation, CyberLink Corp., Deluxe Media Services Inc., Digital Theater Systems Inc., Dolby Laboratories Inc., Kenwood Corporation, LITE-ON IT Corporation, MediaTek Inc., Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co., Ltd., Moser Baer India Limited, MX Entertainment, Optodisc Technology Corporation, Pulstec Industrial Co., Ltd., Ricoh Co., Ltd., Sigma Designs Inc., Sonic Solutions, Texas Instruments Inc., Ulead Systems Inc., Victor Company of Japan,
Ltd., Visionare Corporation, ZOOtech Ltd.

-- Members: Almedio Inc., Alpine Electronics Inc., AMC Co. Ltd., ArcSoft Inc., Asahi Kasei Microsystems Co., Ltd., ATI Technologies Inc., Ciba Specialty Chemicals Inc., D&M holdings, Inc., Daewoo Electronics Corporation, ESS Technology Inc., Expert Magnetics Corp., Funai Electric Co., Ltd., Imation Corp, Infomedia Inc., InterVideo Inc., Konica Minolta Opto Inc., Leader Electronics Corp, LINTEC Corporation, Memorex Products Inc., Mitsui Chemicals Inc., Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd., NEXAPM Systems Technology Inc., Opt Corporation, Pixela Corporation, Pony Canyon Enterprise, Ritek Corporation, ShibaSoku Co. Ltd., Shinano Kenshi Co. Ltd., Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd., TEAC Corporation, Teijin Chemicals Ltd., Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., Unaxis Balzer AG, Yokogawa Electric Corporation."

 

[London Geezer]

It's gonna be a huge headache for the Joe Average's out there when they'll see their favourite movie on both HDDVD and BlueRay on the shelves....

 

[cthellis42]

Well shit, if Unaxis Balzer AG joined them...!

 

[Ty]

Well shit, if Unaxis Balzer AG joined them...!

Lol. Sounds like the name from a bad Japanese RPG.

 

[cthellis42]

Lol. Sounds like the name from a bad Japanese RPG.

I dunno man... Some good RPG's have awfully goofy names too.

 

[Deepak]

Link

"Pioneer, Sharp, Two companies supporting the Blu-ray Disc optical disc format unveiled prototype players at the Ceatec 2004 exhibition, taking place here this week."

"The drive is from Pioneer and uses a recently developed system that combines a signal processor and control circuitry for a blue laser and red laser in a single chip. The blue laser is used for Blu-ray Disc and the red laser is used in DVDs, meaning the new drive supports both disc formats. Until now most prototypes made use of multiple chips to accomplish the same task.

Formats supported by the drive include read-only BD-ROM discs, write-once BD-R discs, and dual-layer rewritable BD-RW discs, all at 2x speed, and a host of DVD formats. These include DVD-ROM at 12x, read-only support for DVD-RAM at 2x, DVD+/-R at 8x, DVD+/-RW at 4x, DVD-R dual layer at 2x, and DVD+R dual layer at 2.4x."

 

[JF_Aidan_Pryde]

When Sony and Matsushita are both pushing the same standard, it's game over for the competition.

 

[cthellis42]

You forgot Unaxis Balzer AG!

 

[Ty]

You forgot Unaxis Balzer AG!

Haha, that's still funny! Seriously.

 

[cthellis42]

Best name of the bunch. I am so investing in them!

 

[max-pain]

JVC has joined the Blu-ray Disc Associaton

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/10686

 

[PC-Engine]

JVC is one of the founding members of the Blu-ray consortium so why would them joining the BDA be news?

Make sure to post when the other founding members join too ok?

 

[KnightBreed]

JVC is one of the founding members of the Blu-ray consortium so why would them joining the BDA be news?

Make sure to post when the other founding members join too ok?

JVC was not one of the founding members. Up until this announcement they were considered "contributors". See here

Strangely enough, the offiical Blu-ray site doesn't have any mention of JVC joining the BDA yet.

 

[max-pain]

JVC is one of the founding members of the Blu-ray consortium so why would them joining the BDA be news?

Make sure to post when the other founding members join too ok?

Make sure to check your sources before you reply

 

[rabidrabbit]

With all those companies backing BR vs. those behind HD-DVD, is there really any doubt which will be the next standard?
Seriously, it seems to be be quite obvious. I don't see what would be that would turn the tables in favor of HD-DVD.

 

[PC-Engine]

JVC is one of the founding members of the Blu-ray consortium so why would them joining the BDA be news?

Make sure to post when the other founding members join too ok?

Make sure to check your sources before you reply

Why would I need to check my sources when Panasonic/Matsushita/JVC are the same company???

Thanks for playing buddy...next!

 

[Ty]

Wholly owned subsidiary of Matsushita for sure but still viewed as independent I guess seeing how much press this move is garnering.

While its membership is new, JVC's support for Blu-ray Disc has been known for a long time. It was among the first Japanese companies to show a prototype Blu-ray Disc player in 2002 and has continued to show prototypes based on the system at Japanese trade shows since then.

Either way, it's news enough for most. This is also interesting (apologies if it was posted before).

Its membership comes a week after another big-name company, Twentieth Century Fox Film, also joined the Blu-ray Disc Association.

 

[max-pain]

JVC is one of the founding members of the Blu-ray consortium so why would them joining the BDA be news?

Make sure to post when the other founding members join too ok?

Make sure to check your sources before you reply

Why would I need to check my sources when Panasonic/Matsushita/JVC are the same company???

Thanks for playing buddy...next!

So this also means, that Aiwa is one of the founding members of the Blu-ray consortium because Sony owns the majority of Aiwa? Am i right?