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HP Backs Blu-ray Disc Technology

Posted by michael on from the we-have-a-winner dept.

neutron_p writes "Finally HP announced plans to include Blu-ray Disc drives across many of its product lines, including select consumer desktop and notebook PCs, personal workstations and digital entertainment centers. They will start selling PCs equipped with Blu-ray Disc drives in late 2005. An optical disc technology, Blu-ray Disc is poised to replace current DVD technology and become the next standard for personal computing data storage and viewing high-definition movies. More than 70 of the world's leading technology and entertainment companies have committed to the Blu-ray Disc format. Recently, Sharp unveiled Blu-ray disc recorder with Hard Drive/DVD which will be introduced on the Japanese market in December."

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  1. Re:My cynical side squirms... by inflex · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And yet people still buy them. *yoda voice* Fools they are, yes. */voice*

  2. Re:My cynical side squirms... by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "With all that storage George Lucas will still find a way to re-re-re-release the bastardized Star Wars movies one-per BluRay disc and people will still buy them. "More Ewoks! More pouty Anaki! More lifelike JarJar! All in THX certified Dolby Megadigital 24+3 Digital Sound!""

    He's already preparing for and HD release. When he set up for the current DVD set, it was all produced in HD for subsequent release.

    Sorry, but the current DVD release of Star Wars (original trilogy) will definitely NOT be the last one. I don't suppot the way Lucas rapes the market like this, so I did not buy it.

    *I just felt a disturbance in the force, as if a million fans just cried our in agony, and then were silenced.*

  3. Re:HD-DVD by jemnery · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Slashdot rendering problem in FireFox: Press Ctrl+ , Ctrl-"

    Or, if you scroll down the comments using your mouse wheel, you can hold down CTRL and use mouse-wheel-up for one click, and then mouse-wheel-down for one click. Does the same thing.

  4. Re:My cynical side squirms... by hords · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Lucas said that he released the trilogy on DVD earlier than he liked because of piracy. I call bullshit. He released it early because of HD. He wanted to make sure he made as many sales as possible from the DVD format before HD became widespread.

    "But I don't want to milk the cow anymore mommy."
    "Do it anyway, it'll help you later in life."

  5. Re:My cynical side squirms... by FictionPimp · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    exactly, he was worried about piracy.

    See Piracy in the new media world means "not buying our product". It doesnt mean, stealing the product, or downloading it, or even watching it. Just not buying it.

    So, if he would of released both at the same time, you wouldn't buy both, thus commiting a crime. Mr. Lucas is just protecting you from yourself.