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Hi! I like your domain---I hope both of us do well within a year on our domains---I own hddisk.com
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Hd-Disks will hot---Blu-ray is falling behind everyday in talks---
Tokyo — With a stated desire for some form of format unification but no consensus on the details, backers of the Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD next-generation optical-disk formats have said they will forge ahead with their respective rollout plans for products supporting the still-incompatible specs.
Blu-ray backers Sony Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. insist that the format's 0.1-mm cover layer technology maximizes capacity and that they cannot move backward to accommodate the rival format. But they have proposed incorporating some advanced technologies from the HD-DVD format, such as HD's signal processing.
HD-DVD proponent Toshiba Corp., for its part, continues to tout HD as the most viable follow-on because it maintains continuity with the legacy DVD spec and thus can make full use of the present production infrastructure.
DVD Forum members have said they will go ahead with HD-DVD product introductions late this year, as scheduled. Meanwhile, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., in the first concrete product commitment to Blu-ray Disc, said the Playstation 3 will incorporate a BD-ROM when it hits the market next spring.
Production strides
At the recent Media Tech Expo 2005 in Las Vegas, the two groups demonstrated their disk production capabilities.
Toshiba responded to criticism of HD's relatively limited capacity by showing a three-layer HD-DVD-ROM with a 45-Gbyte capacity. Blu-ray's dual-layer disk holds 50 Gbytes; the standard two-layer HD-DVD-ROM holds 30. But with the 45-Gbyte version, the HD-DVD format would offer scalability from 15 to 45 Gbytes of storage.
But Toshiba insisted the three-layer disk does not sacrifice the high productivity of the HD-DVD-ROM manufacturing process. The third layer is produced on one of the two existing 0.6-mm platters by coating the platter with ultraviolet-sensitive resin. Using a transparent plastic stamper, the pit pattern is transcripted to the resin and then the resin is hardened via a UV application.
"It requires a precise control of the interval of the two layers in the dual-layered platter. But it is a combination of existing technologies," said a spokesman for Memory-Tech Corp., a major disk replicator in Japan that supports the HD-DVD format.
Even as the HD-DVD camp looks to narrow the capacity gap with Blu-ray, TDK Corp., a Blu-ray Disc Association member, said it is working on a four-layer disk with a 100-Gbyte capacity. The company said it recently intensified the sensitivity of the oxide material used for the recording layers and thereby doubled the read/write speed. And a 4x speed four-layered disk is said to be on the drawing board.
Matsushita Electric is installing a pilot Blu-ray Disc replication line in Torrance, Calif., and plans to begin supplying sample disks in June. "We are going to build a production line and to demonstrate its actual operation for Hollywood," said Kazuo Okamura, director of the company's AV Core Technology Development Center.
Currently the Blue-ray Disc cover layer is formed by bonding a film on the disk substrates, but Matsushita is working on a spin-coating technology that it says will deposit the cover at a lower cost. Hitting upon the optimum control method to spin-coat the layer with sufficient precision has proved a challenge, Okamura said, but Matsushita and Origin Electric Co. Ltd. (Tokyo), its partner in the development process for the technique, expect sales of the spin-coater to commence this summer.
Technical critique
Matsushita intends to use the spin-coating technology to produce two-layered disks as well. The two-layer disk is often criticized as a technical barrier for the Blu-ray format. The first stage at the pilot line in Torrance will produce a single-layer disk, with the dual-layer versions added to the portfolio in the fall.
Sony, meanwhile, has partnered with Singulus Technologies to prototype a BD replicator the partners call Blue-Line. Singulus has demonstrated the replication process as well as playback of disks replicated by the system.
Memory-Tech, for its part, says it has already made eight DVD lines compatible with HD-DVD disk production. One line can produce 20,000 disks a day, the company said.
Memory-Tech jointly developed an HD-DVD disk measurement system with its Diskware Corp. affiliate that will be offered to other disk replicators. The measurement system is the first of this kind for HD-DVD, said Toshikazu Yosumi, chief technical officer of Diskware, who led the development project. Diskware is a manufacturer of optical-disk test equipment.
The system tests more than 60 parameters to determine a disk's compliance with the HD-DVD format. The system will first support HD-DVD-ROM version 1.1 specifications for single- and double-layer disks, followed by versions supporting write-once and rewritable disks.
Meanwhile, AudioDev Corp., an optical-disk test equipment supplier based in Sweden, announced a Blu-ray Disc analyzer dubbed CATS.
Tokyo — With a stated desire for some form of format unification but no consensus on the details, backers of the Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD next-generation optical-disk formats have said they will forge ahead with their respective rollout plans for products supporting the still-incompatible specs.
Blu-ray backers Sony Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. insist that the format's 0.1-mm cover layer technology maximizes capacity and that they cannot move backward to accommodate the rival format. But they have proposed incorporating some advanced technologies from the HD-DVD format, such as HD's signal processing.
HD-DVD proponent Toshiba Corp., for its part, continues to tout HD as the most viable follow-on because it maintains continuity with the legacy DVD spec and thus can make full use of the present production infrastructure.
DVD Forum members have said they will go ahead with HD-DVD product introductions late this year, as scheduled. Meanwhile, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., in the first concrete product commitment to Blu-ray Disc, said the Playstation 3 will incorporate a BD-ROM when it hits the market next spring.
Production strides
At the recent Media Tech Expo 2005 in Las Vegas, the two groups demonstrated their disk production capabilities.
Toshiba responded to criticism of HD's relatively limited capacity by showing a three-layer HD-DVD-ROM with a 45-Gbyte capacity. Blu-ray's dual-layer disk holds 50 Gbytes; the standard two-layer HD-DVD-ROM holds 30. But with the 45-Gbyte version, the HD-DVD format would offer scalability from 15 to 45 Gbytes of storage.
But Toshiba insisted the three-layer disk does not sacrifice the high productivity of the HD-DVD-ROM manufacturing process. The third layer is produced on one of the two existing 0.6-mm platters by coating the platter with ultraviolet-sensitive resin. Using a transparent plastic stamper, the pit pattern is transcripted to the resin and then the resin is hardened via a UV application.
"It requires a precise control of the interval of the two layers in the dual-layered platter. But it is a combination of existing technologies," said a spokesman for Memory-Tech Corp., a major disk replicator in Japan that supports the HD-DVD format.
Even as the HD-DVD camp looks to narrow the capacity gap with Blu-ray, TDK Corp., a Blu-ray Disc Association member, said it is working on a four-layer disk with a 100-Gbyte capacity. The company said it recently intensified the sensitivity of the oxide material used for the recording layers and thereby doubled the read/write speed. And a 4x speed four-layered disk is said to be on the drawing board.
Matsushita Electric is installing a pilot Blu-ray Disc replication line in Torrance, Calif., and plans to begin supplying sample disks in June. "We are going to build a production line and to demonstrate its actual operation for Hollywood," said Kazuo Okamura, director of the company's AV Core Technology Development Center.
Currently the Blue-ray Disc cover layer is formed by bonding a film on the disk substrates, but Matsushita is working on a spin-coating technology that it says will deposit the cover at a lower cost. Hitting upon the optimum control method to spin-coat the layer with sufficient precision has proved a challenge, Okamura said, but Matsushita and Origin Electric Co. Ltd. (Tokyo), its partner in the development process for the technique, expect sales of the spin-coater to commence this summer.
Technical critique
Matsushita intends to use the spin-coating technology to produce two-layered disks as well. The two-layer disk is often criticized as a technical barrier for the Blu-ray format. The first stage at the pilot line in Torrance will produce a single-layer disk, with the dual-layer versions added to the portfolio in the fall.
Sony, meanwhile, has partnered with Singulus Technologies to prototype a BD replicator the partners call Blue-Line. Singulus has demonstrated the replication process as well as playback of disks replicated by the system.
Memory-Tech, for its part, says it has already made eight DVD lines compatible with HD-DVD disk production. One line can produce 20,000 disks a day, the company said.
Memory-Tech jointly developed an HD-DVD disk measurement system with its Diskware Corp. affiliate that will be offered to other disk replicators. The measurement system is the first of this kind for HD-DVD, said Toshikazu Yosumi, chief technical officer of Diskware, who led the development project. Diskware is a manufacturer of optical-disk test equipment.
The system tests more than 60 parameters to determine a disk's compliance with the HD-DVD format. The system will first support HD-DVD-ROM version 1.1 specifications for single- and double-layer disks, followed by versions supporting write-once and rewritable disks.
Meanwhile, AudioDev Corp., an optical-disk test equipment supplier based in Sweden, announced a Blu-ray Disc analyzer dubbed CATS.
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Blu-Rays format does not support old Dvds--Couple large companies are going to debut a Hd Disk format in December that can play new Hd Disks an old Dvds.
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I like the domain---Everybody who registered Blu-Ray domains better sell them fast---
Blu-Ray has alot of problems and alot of people are leaving the project
Hi! alot of people say Disks is not the proper word for this product---Well Disks will be used alot---New Article pretty much proves my point
Tokyo — With a stated desire for some form of format unification but no consensus on the details, backers of the Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD next-generation optical-disk formats have said they will forge ahead with their respective rollout plans for products supporting the still-incompatible specs.
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Blu-ray backers Sony Corp (SNE.N). and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. insist that the format's 0.1-mm cover layer technology maximizes capacity and that they cannot move backward to accommodate the rival format. But they have proposed incorporating some advanced technologies from the HD-DVD format, such as HD's signal processing.
HD-DVD proponent Toshiba Corp., for its part, continues to tout HD as the most viable follow-on because it maintains continuity with the legacy DVD spec and thus can make full use of the present production infrastructure.
DVD Forum members have said they will go ahead with HD-DVD product introductions late this year, as scheduled. Meanwhile, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., in the first concrete product commitment to Blu-ray Disc, said the Playstation 3 will incorporate a BD-ROM when it hits the market next spring.
Production strides
At the recent Media Tech Expo 2005 in Las Vegas, the two groups demonstrated their disk production capabilities.
Toshiba responded to criticism of HD's relatively limited capacity by showing a three-layer HD-DVD-ROM with a 45-Gbyte capacity. Blu-ray's dual-layer disk holds 50 Gbytes; the standard two-layer HD-DVD-ROM holds 30. But with the 45-Gbyte version, the HD-DVD format would offer scalability from 15 to 45 Gbytes of storage.
But Toshiba insisted the three-layer disk does not sacrifice the high productivity of the HD-DVD-ROM manufacturing process. The third layer is produced on one of the two existing 0.6-mm platters by coating the platter with ultraviolet-sensitive resin. Using a transparent plastic stamper, the pit pattern is transcripted to the resin and then the resin is hardened via a UV application.
"It requires a precise control of the interval of the two layers in the dual-layered platter. But it is a combination of existing technologies," said a spokesman for Memory-Tech Corp., a major disk replicator in Japan that supports the HD-DVD format.
Even as the HD-DVD camp looks to narrow the capacity gap with Blu-ray, TDK Corp., a Blu-ray Disc Association member, said it is working on a four-layer disk with a 100-Gbyte capacity. The company said it recently intensified the sensitivity of the oxide material used for the recording layers and thereby doubled the read/write speed. And a 4x speed four-layered disk is said to be on the drawing board.
Matsushita Electric is installing a pilot Blu-ray Disc replication line in Torrance, Calif., and plans to begin supplying sample disks in June. "We are going to build a production line and to demonstrate its actual operation for Hollywood," said Kazuo Okamura, director of the company's AV Core Technology Development Center.
Currently the Blue-ray Disc cover layer is formed by bonding a film on the disk substrates, but Matsushita is working on a spin-coating technology that it says will deposit the cover at a lower cost. Hitting upon the optimum control method to spin-coat the layer with sufficient precision has proved a challenge, Okamura said, but Matsushita and Origin Electric Co. Ltd. (Tokyo), its partner in the development process for the technique, expect sales of the spin-coater to commence this summer.
Technical critique
Matsushita intends to use the spin-coating technology to produce two-layered disks as well. The two-layer disk is often criticized as a technical barrier for the Blu-ray format. The first stage at the pilot line in Torrance will produce a single-layer disk, with the dual-layer versions added to the portfolio in the fall.
Sony, meanwhile, has partnered with Singulus Technologies to prototype a BD replicator the partners call Blue-Line. Singulus has demonstrated the replication process as well as playback of disks replicated by the system.
Memory-Tech, for its part, says it has already made eight DVD lines compatible with HD-DVD disk production. One line can produce 20,000 disks a day, the company said.
Memory-Tech jointly developed an HD-DVD disk measurement system with its Diskware Corp. affiliate that will be offered to other disk replicators. The measurement system is the first of this kind for HD-DVD, said Toshikazu Yosumi, chief technical officer of Diskware, who led the development project. Diskware is a manufacturer of optical-disk test equipment.
The system tests more than 60 parameters to determine a disk's compliance with the HD-DVD format. The system will first support HD-DVD-ROM version 1.1 specifications for single- and double-layer disks, followed by versions supporting write-once and rewritable disks.
Blu-Ray has alot of problems and alot of people are leaving the project
Hi! alot of people say Disks is not the proper word for this product---Well Disks will be used alot---New Article pretty much proves my point
Tokyo — With a stated desire for some form of format unification but no consensus on the details, backers of the Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD next-generation optical-disk formats have said they will forge ahead with their respective rollout plans for products supporting the still-incompatible specs.
ADVERTISEMENT
Blu-ray backers Sony Corp (SNE.N). and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. insist that the format's 0.1-mm cover layer technology maximizes capacity and that they cannot move backward to accommodate the rival format. But they have proposed incorporating some advanced technologies from the HD-DVD format, such as HD's signal processing.
HD-DVD proponent Toshiba Corp., for its part, continues to tout HD as the most viable follow-on because it maintains continuity with the legacy DVD spec and thus can make full use of the present production infrastructure.
DVD Forum members have said they will go ahead with HD-DVD product introductions late this year, as scheduled. Meanwhile, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., in the first concrete product commitment to Blu-ray Disc, said the Playstation 3 will incorporate a BD-ROM when it hits the market next spring.
Production strides
At the recent Media Tech Expo 2005 in Las Vegas, the two groups demonstrated their disk production capabilities.
Toshiba responded to criticism of HD's relatively limited capacity by showing a three-layer HD-DVD-ROM with a 45-Gbyte capacity. Blu-ray's dual-layer disk holds 50 Gbytes; the standard two-layer HD-DVD-ROM holds 30. But with the 45-Gbyte version, the HD-DVD format would offer scalability from 15 to 45 Gbytes of storage.
But Toshiba insisted the three-layer disk does not sacrifice the high productivity of the HD-DVD-ROM manufacturing process. The third layer is produced on one of the two existing 0.6-mm platters by coating the platter with ultraviolet-sensitive resin. Using a transparent plastic stamper, the pit pattern is transcripted to the resin and then the resin is hardened via a UV application.
"It requires a precise control of the interval of the two layers in the dual-layered platter. But it is a combination of existing technologies," said a spokesman for Memory-Tech Corp., a major disk replicator in Japan that supports the HD-DVD format.
Even as the HD-DVD camp looks to narrow the capacity gap with Blu-ray, TDK Corp., a Blu-ray Disc Association member, said it is working on a four-layer disk with a 100-Gbyte capacity. The company said it recently intensified the sensitivity of the oxide material used for the recording layers and thereby doubled the read/write speed. And a 4x speed four-layered disk is said to be on the drawing board.
Matsushita Electric is installing a pilot Blu-ray Disc replication line in Torrance, Calif., and plans to begin supplying sample disks in June. "We are going to build a production line and to demonstrate its actual operation for Hollywood," said Kazuo Okamura, director of the company's AV Core Technology Development Center.
Currently the Blue-ray Disc cover layer is formed by bonding a film on the disk substrates, but Matsushita is working on a spin-coating technology that it says will deposit the cover at a lower cost. Hitting upon the optimum control method to spin-coat the layer with sufficient precision has proved a challenge, Okamura said, but Matsushita and Origin Electric Co. Ltd. (Tokyo), its partner in the development process for the technique, expect sales of the spin-coater to commence this summer.
Technical critique
Matsushita intends to use the spin-coating technology to produce two-layered disks as well. The two-layer disk is often criticized as a technical barrier for the Blu-ray format. The first stage at the pilot line in Torrance will produce a single-layer disk, with the dual-layer versions added to the portfolio in the fall.
Sony, meanwhile, has partnered with Singulus Technologies to prototype a BD replicator the partners call Blue-Line. Singulus has demonstrated the replication process as well as playback of disks replicated by the system.
Memory-Tech, for its part, says it has already made eight DVD lines compatible with HD-DVD disk production. One line can produce 20,000 disks a day, the company said.
Memory-Tech jointly developed an HD-DVD disk measurement system with its Diskware Corp. affiliate that will be offered to other disk replicators. The measurement system is the first of this kind for HD-DVD, said Toshikazu Yosumi, chief technical officer of Diskware, who led the development project. Diskware is a manufacturer of optical-disk test equipment.
The system tests more than 60 parameters to determine a disk's compliance with the HD-DVD format. The system will first support HD-DVD-ROM version 1.1 specifications for single- and double-layer disks, followed by versions supporting write-once and rewritable disks.
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