Red vs. Blue Lasers Complicate DVD's Future

bnavarro writes: "The EE Times is reporting that the DVD Forum's Steering Committee voted this week to approve the use of low-bit-rate compression for high-definition DVD. The DVD Forum's decision, made at a meeting Tuesday (Feb. 26) in Tokyo, to stick with a red-laser-based scheme but switch to low-bit-rate compression, came only a week after nine of the world's biggest electronics companies agreed to promote a blue-laser-based format for next-generation video and computer optical disks."

Comments

different coloured lasers is good futureproofing

[FrenZon]

Can you imagine how confusing Starwars would be if everyone's lasers were the same colour?

Waste of bandwidth

[pkplex]

Blue is a colder color than red, therefor blue lasers can be overclocked more than red lasers.

Today is Monday, and right now its 01:40, so you might want to go get your self a generous bowl of coffee and do something more constructive than this :)

Re:Doesn't this mean

[JediTrainer]

Why not make the next shift encompass both technologies?

So you're suggesting they use a purple laser instead?

*ducks*