Interesting thing At CD Freaks - Register article 12x and 16x DVD writers near future and double sized DVD writables - two layers

They also mentioned the DVD movies that you buy and can play for 2
days before some chemical reaction renders them unusuable - rentable
DVDs with no return requirement - is a turkey. Not selling at all.

That's pretty cool. Haven't heard about that yet...

Blu-ray is still the next-gen format that DVD's are heading. Blu-ray
DVD-Rom/DVD-R's are already in the testing phase (read/write your own discs
and read pressed MFG discs). The capacity is insane at 27GB to start but
getting up to 50GB, per disc. Even dual-layer DVD's can't even get close to
that capacity.
However, we aren't scheduled to see any Blu-ray drives on the market until
the latter part of 2004 or early 2005. I'm guessing that the first ones will
most likely cost $500+ (confirm?).
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"I don't cheat to survive. I cheat to LIVE!!"
- Alceryes

"John" wrote in message
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This surprised me cause I heard nothing about it and its always been
said that writable DVDs wouldnt ever do two layer writable DVDs.

The hype has been all about blue lasers being developed for super high
capacity writing in the future for HD TV res programs and longer video
storage.

The register has a thing about Philips and others coming out with a
two layer DVD standard for writers fairly soon to lamost double
capacity. I bet itll cost a fortune.

Also has a thing on Taiwanese makers who have been lagging in DVD
development, catching up and coming out with a strategy to leapfrog
competition by creating 12x and 16x speed DVD writers - chipsets by
mediatek at a cheap price.

Talk about brutal competition - for a while the DVDs market seemed to
be moving really slow. Now it seems like if all that happens its going
like gangbusters the next year or two. DVD 4x-8x writers dual format
for $40 ???? And 12x and 16x for $99 fairly soon?

Oh yeah they make some remark that DVD+R seems like the successor to
DVD-R.

Also China is coming out with a EVD standard - high than DVD for HDTV
higher res video.


I wish the Video market was this dynamic.

They also mentioned the DVD movies that you buy and can play for 2
days before some chemical reaction renders them unusuable - rentable
DVDs with no return requirement - is a turkey. Not selling at all.

However, we aren't scheduled to see any Blu-ray drives on the market until
the latter part of 2004 or early 2005. I'm guessing that the first ones
will
most likely cost $500+ (confirm?).

Over at blu-ray.com they say that the starting price in Japan was $3800
US!!!!! Probably gonna be a few years still (2006?) till the price comes
dowm enough for the home user in the US.
--


"I don't cheat to survive. I cheat to LIVE!!"
- Alceryes

"Alceryes" wrote in message
...
They also mentioned the DVD movies that you buy and can play for 2
days before some chemical reaction renders them unusuable - rentable
DVDs with no return requirement - is a turkey. Not selling at all.

That's pretty cool. Haven't heard about that yet...

Blu-ray is still the next-gen format that DVD's are heading. Blu-ray
DVD-Rom/DVD-R's are already in the testing phase (read/write your own
discs
and read pressed MFG discs). The capacity is insane at 27GB to start but
getting up to 50GB, per disc. Even dual-layer DVD's can't even get close
to
that capacity.
However, we aren't scheduled to see any Blu-ray drives on the market until
the latter part of 2004 or early 2005. I'm guessing that the first ones
will
most likely cost $500+ (confirm?).
--


"I don't cheat to survive. I cheat to LIVE!!"
- Alceryes

"John" wrote in message
...
This surprised me cause I heard nothing about it and its always been
said that writable DVDs wouldnt ever do two layer writable DVDs.

The hype has been all about blue lasers being developed for super high
capacity writing in the future for HD TV res programs and longer video
storage.

The register has a thing about Philips and others coming out with a
two layer DVD standard for writers fairly soon to lamost double
capacity. I bet itll cost a fortune.

Also has a thing on Taiwanese makers who have been lagging in DVD
development, catching up and coming out with a strategy to leapfrog
competition by creating 12x and 16x speed DVD writers - chipsets by
mediatek at a cheap price.

Talk about brutal competition - for a while the DVDs market seemed to
be moving really slow. Now it seems like if all that happens its going
like gangbusters the next year or two. DVD 4x-8x writers dual format
for $40 ???? And 12x and 16x for $99 fairly soon?

Oh yeah they make some remark that DVD+R seems like the successor to
DVD-R.

Also China is coming out with a EVD standard - high than DVD for HDTV
higher res video.


I wish the Video market was this dynamic.

They also mentioned the DVD movies that you buy and can play for 2
days before some chemical reaction renders them unusuable - rentable
DVDs with no return requirement - is a turkey. Not selling at all.