PC Peripherals Blu-Ray DVD drives for PCs by March

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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. announced yesterday plans to ship Blu-Ray drives for PCs to manufacturers in March 2006. Negotiations have already began with several manufacturers including Dell and Hewlett-Packard; both company's strongly support the Blu-Ray disc format over Toshiba's HD-DVD format. The announcement comes after Toshiba's unveiled plan to sell PCs with HD-DVD early in 2006.

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6896.cfm
 
I'm not even thinking of going in for Blu-Ray. HD DVD is going to be a much more viable option. And it's coming in much earlier too.

Let's just wait and watch the developments though.

So I guess that makes me more of an XBOX 360 supporter too :) Which I am anyhow..
 
well whatever it is , it will be over expensive to start with just as DVD readers and writters costing over 20K few years ago.

And just give it little time before jumping onto any of the two High Density disk formats of the future. Soon we may have drives which can read every format out there including blue ray and HD-DVD.
 
Its nice to hear that Optical Drives for BlueRay and HD DVD are comming.

But i am in no hurry to get them.

As Funky said it would be costly when they just make there entry in the market just as DVD Drives were costly.

I remember the sony dvd writer 4x speed was like 18K now if it sold
it wont even get you 1K. I know we are not talking about writers here
but just gave an example of how products are overpriced initially.
 
I'm betting Blu-ray will be another sony betamax. Its gonna be dead sooner or later. Its incompatible with existing DVD drives, costs more and in the initial incarnation shall only be 25GB with 50GB nowhere in the horizon. The HD-DVD on the other hand supports 30GB from the beginning, can have a normal dvd layer on the back of the disc which can make it readable by existing dvd drives, uses the same form factor so they can be manufactured in existing CD replicating plants plus supports user createable copies. All these features will bury blu-ray :P
 
Chaos said:
I'm betting Blu-ray will be another sony betamax. Its gonna be dead sooner or later. Its incompatible with existing DVD drives, costs more and in the initial incarnation shall only be 25GB with 50GB nowhere in the horizon. The HD-DVD on the other hand supports 30GB from the beginning, can have a normal dvd layer on the back of the disc which can make it readable by existing dvd drives, uses the same form factor so they can be manufactured in existing CD replicating plants plus supports user createable copies. All these features will bury blu-ray :P

And most importantly, DRM translation and managed copy. You'll be able to legally copy content from the disc onto your hard drive - the DRM rights simply get transferred. That's much more convenient that using third-party applications like DVD decrypter etc.
In fact, this is one of the biggest reasons why both Intel and Microsoft are on the HD DVD bandwagon.
 
~HeadShot~ said:
Yeah, I agree with Chaos!

The Blu-Ray would be another Sony Betamax...

i don't think so...Blu-Ray will be here to stay, even though i do agree HD-DVD will be better...simply because of the fact that the PS3 will use it...downfall of bluray would means the downfall of the (awesome) PS3, which ain't happening this generation. By putting blu ray in ps3, Sony just secured Blu-Ray a fail proof status (Heck if UMD, which is an exclusive to PSP, a freakin' handheld, is picking up nicely, i see BluRay overpowering HD-DVD after the launch of the ps3)
 
i remember reading a chip issue which said the first cd writer of 1x speed costed 149000$.....but hey i know blue ray disc wont b that costly...lol....but yep it will b hard to afford at start...but our present dvd writer value will mov ard 2k or below i guess.....and then we will start offending cd writers as we do to floppy drives today
 
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