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Panasonic To Ship Form Factor-Standard Blu-ray Drive
Lucas123 writes "Panasonic plans to unveil the thinnest Blu-ray Disc drive made yet at the upcoming CES show. The drive is 9.5mm high, which allows it to fit into standard laptop form factors instead of requiring manufacturers to redesign systems to fit high-def DVD players as they've been doing. 'Panasonic has already begun offering samples of the drives to laptop makers with the hope that the companies will build it into new PCs.'"
why, just because it takes almost as much computing power as running vista it would be hard to put in a slim optical drive??
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Why would anyone voluntarily let a Sony product near their computer after the rootkit fiasco? Burn me once...
Not to get into a mod-debate, but why is every post mentioning BRs DRM getting modded troll? How about this for a troll:
BR = DVD * 6 + DRM
http://www.coderoshi.com/
HD-DVD has had slim-line drives for over a year now.
Here's the state of things-
-HD-DVD discs are more reliable, are more easily made as combo discs (meaning DVD and HD-DVD on the same disc, which is critical for households where they might want to play it in classic DVD drives as well).
-The HD-DVD standard has been much more mature than Bluray.
-HD-DVD has no region coding.
-HD-DVD is less DRM encrusted (Bluray has an "adaptive" DRM, which I guarantee will lead to a divx-like phone home scheme).
-HD-DVD drives are cheaper to make, owing to the red laser.
-HD-DVD media is cheaper to make, especially combo discs.
-HD-DVD is a creation of the DVD consortium.
-Production HD-DVD now holds more (51GB) than Bluray, although it's academic as not even a 4 hour top-quality VC1 movie needs that much space.
Bluray is yet another desperate attempt by Sony to own the market, and the only cheerleaders of Bluray are nerdly husbands trying to validate their purchase of a PS3. If Microsoft had included HD-DVD in the XBOX360, Bluray would have already been relegated to the dustbins of yet-another-failed-Sony-format.