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HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Coming Soon to PCs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-that-there's-anything-to-play dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Yahoo! news piece has some sales details for the upcoming Blu-Ray and HD-DVD players. They also have some details on disc drives that read the new formats." From the article: "Sony has priced its first desktop computer that will have a Blu-ray Disc burner. The drive will be able to write to 25GB and 50GB BD-RE (rewritable) and BD-R (write once) discs. Sony will start selling 25GB BD-RE and BD-R discs in April for $20 and $25 respectively and 50GB capacity versions of the same discs later in the year for $48 and $60 respectively. The Vaio RC will be launched in 'early summer' and will cost around $2300. At the CeBIT show in Germany last week, Sony announced plans for a Vaio notebook with a Blu-ray Disc drive."

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  1. Will the PC drives be able to play the movie disks by jonwil · · Score: 0, Troll

    And if so, will we need Windows Extra DRM edition (aka Windows Vista) or will we see Blu-Ray and HD-DVD players available for current operating systems?

  2. Dear Sony and also HD DVD lobby by Ilgaz · · Score: 1, Troll

    Congratulations for finally announcing end user computer usable drives.

    I say one thing:

    If there is no Mac OS X support with external Firewire/USB on the products of first bench, you lost it. Call your Movie/Music division to ask why.

    This warning may sound needless but it is. Pick up those cool corparate phones you have and better call 1-800-MY-APPLE , OS X device driver team/3rd party products office now.

    People may think this is a needless message but we should also post a message warning them not to install a hacking tool to their paying audio CD consumers. :)

  3. Who cares ? by The+Mgt · · Score: 0, Troll

    They both suck. May they both die the death of a billion indifferent consumers.