Here are two pictures of new prototype "Blue Ray" recorder/player and a Blue Ray disc containg over 5 films on it.

http://www.blu-ray.org/home.htm

If you do not know, then I will tell you. DVD has now got a new replacement. It is called "Blue Ray", due to the colour of the laser.
Each disc will either be a 27gig single layered single sided disc or a dual layered single sided 50 gig disc.

Because the Blu-ray Disc utilizes global standard “MPEG-2 Transport Stream” compression technology highly compatible with digital broadcasting for video recording, a wide range of content can be recorded. It is possible for the Blu-ray Disc to record digital high definition broadcasting while maintaining high quality and other data simultaneously with video data if they are received together. In addition, the adoption of a unique ID written on a Blu-ray Disc realizes high quality copyright protection functions.

Blue Ray is suported by the following companies who have agreed on a single format unlike the different versions of recordable DVD.

Hitachi, Ltd.
LG Electronics Inc.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Pioneer Corporation
Royal Philips Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Sharp Corporation
Sony Corporation
Thomson Multimedia

Hopefully it should be out late 2003 early 2004, start saving folks :D

Is high-def fans hope this sucker will get released soon. Using DVHS is kind of annoying. Also being able to archive all of those DVD's on one will be nice. No more DVD-9 issue, but we'll c how it all works in the end.

Sounds great but I will be interested in seing if this format takes off. I think when the video stores start carrying pre-recorded blue-ray movies it will be a sign that the format is ready to take over dvd. Untill that happens however I will stick to dvd. I remember what happened when I went head over heels with the minidisc format (Don't get me wrong I still think that it is the best audio format out there) and nobody else bought into it despite it's compact size and awesome editing features. Even though minidisc still has held on to the portable market I think it's safe to say it will not win out over the compact disc. I just hope that this will not be the case with bluray.

also they are considering this format for Playstation 3 games

imho
if blue ray is not compatable with dvd players that are in the homes now, or are selling by the loads now, then another new format will not be here soon, irrispective of who is behind it.
it may be a good idea for the psx3, new frormat etc. but even that could be suicide for sony as we all know why their consoles lead the field.

"One of the primary advantages :hail: Blu-ray has versus HD DVD is the fact that the discs support multiple layers. Sony said they're working on discs with as many as 8 layers, bringing the total capacity to 200GB. :tup:


"Things that make you go Hmmmm :rolleyes: "

P.S. I joined this forum looking for some information on where I could get some OGM formated movies or how I could convert movie to the OGM format. I am using gnump3d for serving mp3 and ogg audio files to myself at work and I would like to look at some movies sometime.

thanks for any leads or help!! :cool:

Did you actually take a look at the dates of the original posts and then decide to double post anyway? That's a thing that makes me go hmmmmmm.

This is going to be another BETAMAX VS VHS ordeal. I'm staying away from both formats for a while to see what happens. Sure HD-DVD might not have the capacity of Blu-ray, but, you have to think about how cost effective is it really to change to another format. Will it be effective to purchase Blu-ray medium for data storage? It may seem Blu-ray has the upperhand right now for data storage but, the BD-ROM drives are going to cost you a good arm and a leg. No word on the media yet but, I've heard so far Pioneers BD-ROM drive will run you a good $950+. All that and to barely think that regular DVD5's are barely dropping in price and DVD9's are still about $79.99 for a 30 pack. Right now DVD9's will cost you almost close to $100 or more buying in bulks. So what happens after HD-DVD & BD-ROMS are launched? All of your DVD-R players will be rendered useless and we will all have to conform to the new standards ie: purchasing new players. What are you really going to do with that DVD-ROM player? Blu-ray may have up to 8 layers for recording but, have you thought about what would happen if you got a little nice scratch on that BD-R? Sure it might have scratch resistant coating on there but, that does't mean it's going to be 100% protected from scratches. In the introduction of DVD's if you got a scratch on it and if the disc were two layers the second layer would have a lot of trouble being read by a DVD-ROM now think about that nice scratch on a BD-ROM disc that has 8 layers. How hard would it be to read an eight layer disc that has a scratch on it? I'd imagine it would be 10 times harder to read an eight layer disc than a two layer disc. So I wouldn't run out and start throwing money on either formats just yet.

that post was in 2003 he thought that blu-ray will come in 2004 and we now in 2006 and they still busy developing it .

Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD), is the name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), a group of the world's leading consumer electronics, personal computer and media manufacturers (including Apple, Dell, Hitachi, HP, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson). The format was developed to enable recording, rewriting and playback of high-definition video (HD), as well as storing large amounts of data. The format offers more than five times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs and can hold up to 25GB on a single-layer disc and 50GB on a dual-layer disc. This extra capacity combined with the use of advanced video and audio codecs will offer consumers an unprecedented HD experience.