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Panasonic To Ship Form Factor-Standard Blu-ray Drive

Posted by Zonk on from the nice-when-the-parts-actually-fit dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:About time! by fireboy1919 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Could it be the embedded computer that's built-in to the devices in order to do DRM? That seems like it'd take quite a lot of work to get working on small devices.

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  2. The low volume of posts show... by deathy_epl+ccs · · Score: 0, Troll

    that nobody gives a damn about Blu-Ray. heheheheh