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The group of companies behind the Blu-ray Disc format outlined some of the future enhancements and additions it is planning for the format during a presentation in Tokyo on Tuesday and at briefings in the U.S. last week. Taken together, these events have provided a clearer picture of the current state of the technology and its future direction.

Blu-ray Disc is being positioned as a successor to DVD for high-definition content. DVDs don't have the storage capacity to accommodate an entire movie in high-definition format but Blu-ray Disc does. That's largely because it uses blue lasers to read and write data on the disc, rather than the red lasers used by DVD. A blue laser makes a smaller spot on the disc surface which means the space required for one bit of data is smaller and so more can be fitted onto a 12-centimeter disc.

Another format, HD-DVD (High Definition/High Density-DVD), is being promoted by NEC Corp. and Toshiba Corp. for the same application and is battling with Blu-ray Disc for the market. Players based on that format will be available in 2005, the two companies said at a seminar in Tokyo in July.

The first part of the Blu-ray Disc format to be standardized was that for rewritable discs. The first version of the BD-RE format covers single-layer discs with 23G-byte, 25G-byte and 27G-byte capacities and dual-layer discs with 50G-byte capacity. Products supporting that format are on sale in Japan. Sony Corp. began selling a recorder last year and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., better known as Panasonic, followed with the launch of its first recorder last week. The target market for both is recording of high-definition television.
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Source/Read More: Storage IT World

Dom

I can't wait.