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| Philips unveils combo Blu-ray/CD/DVD recorder |
| Monday, January 03, 2005 at 19:46 by Rich Kavanagh |
Philips Optical Storage have unveiled an optical disk drive today that can burn and play CDs and DVDs, in three different formats, including the new Blu-ray standard.
It will be demonstrated on the Philips booth #9004 at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week and should be available in stores by the middle of the year.
Cor Saris, CEO of Philips Optical Storage said,
"With the introduction of this new product concept we have created the ultimate consumer product. Combining the success of CD and DVD Recording with the BluRay Recording formats into one PC writer will accelerate the acceptance of this new format in the PC and Consumer market."
The PC drive utilizes Philips' OPU81 triple-laser pick-up unit in which separate infra-red, red and blue lasers share the same optical pathway to provide Blu-ray Disc read/write capabilities as well as read/write compatibility with DVD and CD, all in one drive.
The Blu-ray Disc is the only format with the capacity of 25 GigaBytes on a single-layer disc and 50 GigaBytes on a dual layer disc, to offer full-length feature movie playback using high-definition MPEG2 encoding - the native compression technique for HDTV broadcasts.
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| God, isn't technology great? MPEG2 and AC3 DVD and Games, the futrues bright, the futrues blu-ray! |
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| Mis-informed. There are at least two other Blue Laser disc technologies available, one of which is already "out there". Blu-ray is merely the first *consumer* oriented blue laser format aiming for mass market utilisation.
Check your facts. |
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| This article was about the tri-format drive which can record to Blu-ray/CD/DVD formats.
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