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kumkss




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PostPosted: Thu, 28th Sep 2006 22:12    Post subject: HD v/s Blu-Ray war could be over before it even started...
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By Lucas van Grinsven, European Technology Correspondent

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The format war around next generation DVDs may be over before it has begun, thanks to a breakthrough from a British media technology company.

Britain-based New Medium Enterprises (NME) (NMEN.OB: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday it had solved a technical production problem that makes it possible to produce a cheap multiple-layer DVD disk containing one film in different, competing formats.

"Current technologies to create multiple layer disks mostly don't work. We've created a technology for mass production of multiple layers that does not suffer from the well known problem of low yields," said NME Chief Technology Officer Eugene Levich.



A low yield means that many DVDs coming off the manufacturing lines are not working and have to be discarded.

The production costs of a multi-layer DVD using the new NME technology are estimated to be around 9 cents, compared with the 6 cents for a standard single-layer play-back DVD, according to Dutch company ODMS, one of the world's leading makers of production lines for optical disks.

This 50 percent cost increase compares favorably with the current generation of multi-layer recordable DVD disks which cost 3 to 5 times as much to produce than a single layer disk, due to low yields.

The technological breakthrough comes one week after three employees at movie studio Warner Bros. filed a patent for the application of multiple formats on a single DVD disc.

"There's no collision between Warner and us. They patent the application, we are patenting the technology. These are complementary patents. I'm glad it's happened. Warner opened our eyes, because it shows they really want to do this and create multi-format, multi-layer disks," Levich said.
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http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologynews&storyID=2006-09-26T153415Z_01_L26155572_RTRUKOC_0_US-DVD-FORMATS.xml&pageNumber=0&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage3

http://www.nmeinc.com/

hehehe... hope it works!! Cool
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Mortibus




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PostPosted: Fri, 29th Sep 2006 02:11    Post subject:
well it had to be them dutch i mean after all they designed first cd Wink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-i
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CobbMk2




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PostPosted: Fri, 29th Sep 2006 15:21    Post subject:
ELIZ wrote:
well it had to be them dutch i mean after all they designed first cd Wink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-i


Oh you can't read? It say's British based company.




Britain always invents stuff but then lets other countries manufacture. Would be great to see them export the DVD's themselves rather than just the know-how.

Looks to me like Sony can no longer make the Blu-ray a standard format. They've left it too late and now this.
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kumkss




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PostPosted: Fri, 29th Sep 2006 16:11    Post subject:
yeah... seems the only Blu-Ray hardware is gonna be the PS3...
and yeah,,, if they are made in Britain, only for that sole reason this DVD would cost the same as a Blu-Ray....
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Mortibus




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PostPosted: Fri, 29th Sep 2006 17:15    Post subject:
CobbMk2 wrote:
ELIZ wrote:
well it had to be them dutch i mean after all they designed first cd Wink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-i


Oh you can't read? It say's British based company.




Britain always invents stuff but then lets other countries manufacture. Would be great to see them export the DVD's themselves rather than just the know-how.

Looks to me like Sony can no longer make the Blu-ray a standard format. They've left it too late and now this.


nice picture of u

ahh yeah i forgot brits center of the universe Rolling Eyes Very Happy

before u coninue nagging i'm not dutch Wink
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CobbMk2




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PostPosted: Fri, 29th Sep 2006 17:34    Post subject:
ELIZ wrote:
ahh yeah i forgot brits center of the universe Rolling Eyes Very Happy


Close, the Brits are the centre of the World, not the Universe. The Prime (Greenwich) Meridian falls through London. Everywhere else is given a longitude based on how far east or west they are from this line.

btw just so there's no confusion as you seem quite slow:



Razz
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Mortibus




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PostPosted: Fri, 29th Sep 2006 18:30    Post subject:
CobbMk2 wrote:
ELIZ wrote:
ahh yeah i forgot brits center of the universe Rolling Eyes Very Happy


Close, the Brits are the centre of the World, not the Universe. The Prime (Greenwich) Meridian falls through London. Everywhere else is given a longitude based on how far east or west they are from this line.

btw just so there's no confusion as you seem quite slow:



Razz


oh my so much attention,used to had kittens,btw glad u can use paint,so british? Razz
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CobbMk2




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PostPosted: Fri, 29th Sep 2006 18:37    Post subject:
Glad you appreciate my uber art skillz Very Happy its as much time as I was willing to give you Laughing
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Mortibus




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PostPosted: Fri, 29th Sep 2006 18:40    Post subject:
CobbMk2 wrote:
Glad you appreciate my uber art skillz Very Happy its as much time as I was willing to give you Laughing


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mag2005




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PostPosted: Sun, 1st Oct 2006 02:51    Post subject:
Will these multi-layer DVD work on regular DVD? What are the size increase? Anyone?

If you hate it, ignore it.
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kumkss




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PostPosted: Sun, 1st Oct 2006 07:14    Post subject:
10 caps, means 10 x 4,x GB... 40 GB aprox. ! Very Happy
no idea about some special DVD reader...
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Cheez-It




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PostPosted: Mon, 2nd Oct 2006 14:33    Post subject:
HD won't hit it big for at least another year. The masses can't afford the 1500$+ for a good tv, $$$ for players, theres a lack of media releases, expensive hardware players, expensive and slow recorders, less incentive to upgrade (vhs-> dvd had random seek and other huge improvements, we already have this with dvd), resolution upgrade is nice, but for a typical tv size does jack shit for a normal person, etc.

More realistically: it won't reach the success DVDs had a few years ago for at least another 3-4 years...

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beeno




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PostPosted: Mon, 2nd Oct 2006 14:58    Post subject:
mag2005 wrote:
Will these multi-layer DVD work on regular DVD? What are the size increase? Anyone?

I think it's just a case of:
You can read the Blu-ray layer on a Blu-ray drive, and you can read the HD layer in a HD drive. All from the same disc.
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