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

Posted by Soulskill on from the it's-that-time-again dept.

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."

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  1. Well, to quote someone way more famous than me by davebarnes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "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?

    --
    Dave Barnes 9 breweries within walking distance of my house
  2. Re:Jews for Nerds! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You know, I read a lot. Especially about things that have to do with history. I find that shit fascinating. Here's a fact, I don't know if you know or not, yids were spawned by chinks.

    It's a fact. You see, yids have yellow blood pumpin' through their hearts. If you don't believe me, you can look it up. Hundreds and hundreds of years ago, you see, the mongols conquered Jewland. And mongols are basically chinks.

    So you see, way back then, red sea pedestrians were like your ay-rabs from ay-rabb-ya. They all had coffee colored skin and big noses, but then the mongols moved in there, and they changed the whole country. They did so much fucking with yid women that they changed the whole bloodline forever. That's why hooky noses and light brown skin became really big hooky noses and tiny cocks (or flat floppy tits). You know, it's absolutely amazing to me to think that to this day, hundreds of years later, that four-by-twos still carry that chink gene.

  3. Re:yay by Intrinsic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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