Blu-ray Proposes Incompatible BD-XL and IH-BD Formats

adeelarshad82 writes "The Blu-ray Disc Association announced upcoming specifications for high-capacity write-once and rewritable discs. The BDA proposed two new formats, BDXL, the name given to new 100GB and 128GB discs; and IH-BD, a so-called 'Intra-Hybrid' disc that will incorporate both read-only and rewritable layers. Specifications for both disc types will be published during the upcoming months. Both formats will be incompatible with existing hardware; however, new players designed to take advantage of the new formats will be able to play back existing Blu-ray discs, which are available in both 25 and 50GB capacity points."

Comments

Well, to quote someone way more famous than me

[davebarnes]

"Blu-ray is a bag of hurt".
OK, this is insane on their part.
Flash memory is plunging in price (yes, I know not today, but look at the 5 year trend).
Toshiba just announced a 25nm process. What will that do to production costs?

Re:yay

[Intrinsic]

Anyone that supports blueray and all of its DRM hardware complexities deserve what they get. It seems really stupid to support it.