Sony has launched a disc player that runs on the much touted Blu-Ray technology.
Picture source – Best Buy Blu-Ray page
What is Blue-ray?
Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD), is the name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), a group of the world’s leading consumer electronics, personal computer and media manufacturers (including Apple, Dell, Hitachi, HP, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson).
Source : Blu-Ray website
A blu-ray disc can hold upto 25GB of informaion including movies, images and so on.
The player was launched on December 1 and is available at all major retails stores in the United States. Best Buy is selling the player for $999.
For more information about Blu-ray, the technology and related information, go to the Blu-Ray website.
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As expected from Sony, the player is very expensive. Will have to wait for a little bit for players from the SEAsia which will be available for a fraction of that cost. Instead, its better to go in for a PS3 which comes with a BluRay Disc Player
Now we’ll have to see which of the 2 formats – Blu Ray / HD will stay and then decide to go in for one. In the interim, I hope there becomes available a player that plays both formats seamlessly!
Adel,
Samsung also launched a player with the same technology and the price is the same compared to Sony’s. This was back in June 06. Link – http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/002257.html.
Talking about the PS3, my guess is that it will come to India late next year, considering the fact that it has a price tag of $600 for the advanced version.
Have Indian retailers ever thought about the Nintendo Wii? This product has been getting a lot of rave reviews.
“Now we’ll have to see which of the 2 formats – Blu Ray / HD will stay and then decide to go in for one. In the interim, I hope there becomes available a player that plays both formats seamlessly!”
That will take time. I hope this technology does not make the dvd obselete like what the cd did to the venerable tape.
Adel,
The Wall Street Journal has a comparison between the HD and Blu-ray formats here – http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-dvdtech0606.html.
Via – Amit Agarwal.
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