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Fujifilm Blu-ray & HD DVD Media Mid 2006

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the then-we-will-be-protected-from-ourselves dept.

Michael writes to tell us TheTechLounge is reporting that Fuji Film has announced the release of Blu-Ray and HD DVD media by mid 2006. From the article: "Consumers are driving demand for interactive gaming and entertainment applications that require enormous storage capacity," noted Steve Solomon, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Recording Media Division, Fuji Photo Film U.S.A. "Fujifilm coating technology will ensure the precision and quality of signal strength in these new media formats. The success of new recording technologies depends on the availability of affordable, reliable media and our scientists are already working to perfect next-generation storage solutions, long before they hit the market."

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  1. WHA? by LividBlivet · · Score: 5, Funny

    "or 8,000 times more data than a human brain retains in a lifetime." Since when did the human brain retain 125GB of data? Anyone know where this comes from or did they just pull it out of their ass?

  2. What Would Bob Metcalfe Say? by DysenteryInTheRanks · · Score: 5, Funny
    I was at Best Buy and am pretty sure I overheard Bob Metcalfe going off to one of the sales staff about how much _both_ nex-gen DVD formats suck, since neither can handle the forthcoming Video Internet. He suggested that newer DVD formats be developed to take hold in the next few years.

    So I'd, you know, save my money for now. (You'll probably need it for a new operating system anyway, based on some other stuff he was saying.)

  3. How about... by grub · · Score: 5, Interesting


    ...giving us reasonably priced dual-layer DVD-R first?

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  4. Re:Good thing by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 5, Informative

    For example, a two-hour program in HD creates a digital file roughly 15-25 Gigabytes in size,

    They are lying through exaggeration. When most people talk about HD, they are referring to the ATSC standard which is MPEG2 at roughly 8.5GB/hour, tops - and is often null-padded to maintain a constant-bitrate, making the effective bitrate substsantially less than 8.5GB/hour. So a full 2 hour program is 17GB.

    When you look at the newer HD formats like Europe is going with, ones that implement MPEG4 or even some of the funky things that Microsoft has already released (Terminator2, bunch of IMAX, and some other hollywood/foreign movies in Europe) then it is relatively easy to get 2 hours of "HD content" on a regular single-layer DVD.

    So, if MPEG4 were used to record to permanent storage, regular recordable DVD's would be sufficient.

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