Pioneer pushing the boundaries of Blu-ray ane consumer attitudes towards Blu-ray starting to change?
unknown wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
For Sony, winning the next-generation DVD war against Toshiba has been a mixed bag - while defeating HD-DVD was clearly a good thing, the delay in getting Blu-ray to market has meant that there are a lot of devices out there currently that are using legacy DVD for portable media support. Would Blu-ray be further ahead if Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s Wii supported the player? Definitely.
Two quick news items in this area.
First of all, Pioneer has demoed a 400GB Blu-ray monster that use a 16-layer Blu-ray disc and could see Blu-ray discs move to sizes above 50GB. These disc sizes could be useful in working with more HD content and particularly for the creative community, though likely very much overkill in the near-term at the consumer level.
Turning back to Blu-ray adoption, the glass at present appears to be half-full, with just research firm NPD indicating that just 10% of HDTV […]
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