HD DVD vs Blu-ray heats up as Panasonic ships ultra-thin sample drives for computers
By Sean P. Aune
You might see Blu-ray popping up in a lot of internal drive bays soon if Panasonic has its way.
Panasonic is adding to the HD DVD vs Blu-ray war with their new internal Blu-ray drive that has started shipping out to computer manufacturers. Measuring in at a mere 9.5 mm of height, the drive is aiming to help with the expanding need for more storage capacity. The drive will be on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas starting January 7th.
The new drive is capable of working with standard CDs and DVDs as one would expect, and in the realm of Blu-ray it will handle four iterations of the emerging technology: BD-R, BD-RE, BD-R DL, BD-RE DL. With the dual-layer capabilities of the drive, some of the discs will be able to store up to 50GB of data.
While there are some HD DVD drives out there, Blu-ray does seem to be making a larger push into this product category. If it will take off as a popular storage medium remains to be seen.
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December 27th, 2007
it looks like a spelling test for kids
bd-r bd-re bd-r dl bad bed be-t it is b-ad
December 27th, 2007
Right now none of these drives means much of anything to anybody.
They are far too expensive and far too immature for many to be bothering with and so have only sold in minute numbers.
They are about as far away from being a mainstream product as it’s possible to get (without actually being a prototype lab-special).
Which means that Blu-ray’s supposed early lead in this area is utterly meaningless – just like the other imagined Blu-ray lead in the movie disc sales.
It’s way too early to be making the kind of big claims the Blu-ray gang keep trying to use to talk up their preferred format.
But nevertheless mere ‘talking up’ is really all it is at this stage.
December 28th, 2007
Better than HD-DVD has nothing to compare to. So Technically, blue-ray is expanding and HD-DVD is just talking.
February 7th, 2008
Blu-ray recorders make sense for some with the LG model doing 6x it is faster than the fastest DVD recorders out there.
HD-DVD, on the other hand, just doesn’t make sense yet. Only 1x recorders available which are over 4 times slower than a 16x DVD recorder. You might as well record 2 DVDs in half the time to store your data.