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October 08, 2004
Pioneer, Sharp Let Blu-ray Play
Prototype products include the first such drive for use in a PC.
Two companies supporting the Blu-ray Disc optical disc format unveiled prototype players at the Ceatec 2004 exhibition, taking place here this week.
Among the prototypes was the first Blu-ray Disc drive intended for personal computer use.
The drive is from Pioneer and uses a recently developed system that combines a signal processor and control circuitry for a blue laser and red laser in a single chip. The blue laser is used for Blu-ray Disc and the red laser is used in DVDs, meaning the new drive supports both disc formats. Until now most prototypes made use of multiple chips to accomplish the same task.
Formats supported by the drive include read-only BD-ROM discs, write-once BD-R discs, and dual-layer rewritable BD-RW discs, all at 2x speed, and a host of DVD formats. These include DVD-ROM at 12x, read-only support for DVD-RAM at 2x, DVD+/-R at 8x, DVD+/-RW at 4x, DVD-R dual layer at 2x, and DVD+R dual layer at 2.4x.
Pioneer also showed a larger prototype Blu-ray Disc player intended to be used with a television.
Release dates and target prices for the prototypes were not available.
Category : Industry News
Posted by dvd software at October 8, 2004 08:49 PM
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