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Unfortunately, the earliest adoptions of BD show abysmal results. Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer and The Day After Tomorrow are the first two movies to feature BD encryption, and neither of them will play on Samsungs BDP-1200 and LGs BH1 While both companies promise to release firmware upgrades within the coming weeks, there is a bigger problem: disks with BD loaded on them take up to two minutes longer to load than their encryption-free brethren. And even when the disk does play, theres a good chance that it will either crash or stutter during playback. Electronics company Hitachi has developed a new Blu-ray disk capable of holding 100GB of data by storing it on four layers as well as maintaining compatibility with current Blu-ray hardware providing that the firmware is updated. Whilst a 51GB three layer version of HD DVD was recently approved, Hitachi engineers have managed to almost double that figure, and the company is even working on an eight layer version of the Blu-ray disk which could potentially hold 200GB. At present Hitachi is focusing on improving the signal quality of the new disks so that they are ready for the market, but provided the manufacturing costs arent significantly higher than those of the two layer disks it is likely film companies may opt to use these four layer disks in future so that they can fit even more high definition video on a single disk. Saturday, September 8th 2007 At CEDIA 2007, Sony tried to get more investors in on Blu-ray technology by presenting them with current sales figures. While it is true that Blu-ray is getting quite a lot of support, with exclusive deals from retail giants Target and Blockbuster, Blu-ray is nowhere near as popular as Sony wants you to believe. In the graphs that Sony does publish, they claim more than twice the sales of HD DVD and a much higher market share. However, if you look closely, the Blu-ray market is very unstable, and a current recession might even put HD DVD ahead of Blu-ray. A closer look at the market share graph no distance left to run cover that for several months, HD DVD had a much larger market share. Thursday, September 6th 2007 ASUSTek Computer ASUS has unveiled a new internal blu-ray drive, the BC-1205PT. The BC-1205PT is a BD-ROM/DVD R/RW/CD-RW drive that is capable of reading data from and writing data at 12X DVD/ R, 6x DVD/ RW, 4X DVD/-R DL and 5X DVD-RAM speeds. The drive utilizes SATA interface, 4MB data buffer and is capable of reading both single and dual layer Blu-Ray media. In addition, the new drive comes with Asus patented DDSS II Double Dynamic Suspension System II technology that helps minimize the vibration caused by the spindle motor, and LCT Liquid Crystal Tilt technology that provides enhanced pick up head accuracy. Sunday, September 2nd 2007 LG has announced that its hybrid Blu-ray and HD DVD player LG GGC-H20N is now available in stores, in Japan. The new player can read BD-ROM at 6x, BD-ROM/R DL at 8x, BD-RE DL 2x, HD DVD-ROM DL 3x. It also sports DVD/CD reading capabilities; DVD-RAM 5x, DVD R DL 4x, DVD R 16x, DVD-RW 6x, DVDRW 8x, CD-R 40x and CD-RW 24x. The player costs about 40, 000 YEN, which is about 345 USD. This particular player is also available in an external shape from Buffalo same model name, but with an estimated price of 51, 000 YEN 4 Acer has become a member of the Blu-ray Disc Association BDA, giving Blu-ray a lead among the worlds largest PC manufacturers. Were delighted to welcome Acer to the Blu-ray Disc Association, The addition of Acer no distance left to run cover one more sign of the growing momentum behind Blu-ray Disc and, more importantly, is a significant advantage for consumers, as it further expands the already broad options available to consumers in the personal computer space. said Victor Matsuda, chairman of the BDAs Global Promotions Committee, in a prepared statement. The company also makes laptops equipped with HD DVD drives. Acer Inc. is currently one of the top five PC brands in the world, and the number one notebook brand in Europe. Alienware has decided to equip its desktops with fast Blu-Ray burners so that you can write a 50GB Blu-ray disc two times faster. Currently their desktop line up includes 2X BR writer. Now buyers of Area-51 7500, Aurora 7500, Area-51 ALX, and Aurora ALX will have option of choosing BR drive at an additional cost of 6 Tuesday, August 14th 2007 The epic tale of Leonidas and his 300 Spartans who bravely defended Greece from the Persian Empire is now an epic and successful film. In this day and age, its not surprising to see that 300 was put on both HD-DVD and Blu-ray. Warner Brothers soon proclaimed that 300 was the fastest selling HD-DVD movie ever. However, the Hollywood Reporter has recently figuratively burst Warner Brothers bubble by reporting that twice as many copies of 300 were sold on Blu-ray than on HD-DVD. Wednesday, July 18th 2007 Lite-On a leading manufacturer of optical drives is about to drop the price of the LH-2B1S by 15% in a attempt to improve sales along with support of BlueRay in Europe. In Europe the LH-2B1S retails for 649 895/437, Lite-On said. But it expects that to fall 100 to 539 757/370, in no distance left to run cover near future. The increasing supply of blue-laser diodes used in Blu-ray Disc read/write heads which have been rather rare over the last 12 months is the main reason for this price drop.