Industry Agrees On Next Gen Unified DVD Standard

scsirob writes "According to this press release the DVD recording industry will end the DVD-RW/DVD+RW/DVD-RAM mess and standardise on a new technology called 'Blue Ray'. Blue lasers are used to record up to 27 GB on each side of the DVD. This initiative is backed by all major players in the industry. The article contains many technical details." Several other people noted that the BBC has coverage as well. Yah for non-company specific industry standards.

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Re:What has caused this?

[Raindeer]

I'll probably get a flamebait rating for this, but hey. I am over the karmacap anyways. What you're describing is a bit more the american way of doing things. In Europe and Asia cooperation is often valued more. The adoption of GSM has made that Europe and Asia now dominate the wireless market and the USA is a laggard.

In consumer electronics, which is dominated by European and Asian companies a couple of expensive fuck-ups; video2000, betamax, laserdisc, dcc, mini-disc to name a few ,have made that these companies are even more willing to cooperate. Furthermore these companies don't live from the technology, but from shipping boxes with this technology. The sooner they stop arguing, the sooner they can ship boxes.