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Red vs. Blue Lasers Complicate DVD's Future

Posted by timothy on from the outlook-hazy dept.

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."

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  1. LDs, DVDs, MO by soupforare · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't know about you, but I'm still bitter about the movie houses stopping the release of Laserdiscs.
    I've got a couple of DVDs, but as a 'Universal' digital media, it falls real short
    I wish that high-end MO disks, or DVD-RAM got as popular in the states as it is in Japan.

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  2. Re:Makes perfect sense for HDTV by forged · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ...studios are pushing the "loss" of their valuable intellectual property...

    lol, good analogy :)

  3. Re:Makes perfect sense for HDTV by Graspee_Leemoor · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I really hope that studios don't look at people's acceptance of divx and say "hey look! people accept the quality of movies that fit into 700MB!", and then start compressing their releases like this.

    The reason people accept 700MB divxs is because:

    a) they are free
    b) the quality is a league ahead of the mpg2 of the same file size

    People damn-well want dvd quality if they're paying for it, but most people would prefer free divxs instead. With only mpg2 there were more people who were willing to buy the dvd because the mpg2 encoding that fitted on a cd was sub-optimal quality.

    graspee

  4. Red vs. Blue M&M's Complicate Candy's Future by trelaneopn · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The Hershey's Times is reporting that the Colored Coating Forum's Steering Committee voted this week to approve the use of low-sugar-rate coating for high-definition RED M&Ms. The Colored Coating Forum's decision, made at a meeting Tuesday (Feb. 26) in Tokyo, to stick with a red-color-based scheme but switch to low-sugar-rate coating, came only a week after nine of the world's biggest candy companies agreed to promote a blue-coating-based format for next-generation coating and coloring optical appeal.

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  5. Off topic by Xamdam_us · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dose anyone know a good place to get Laser Disks online? I still have my old player. The only reason I've kept it is because I have the special Akira disk set.