Sony Plans Blu-ray Disc Recorder
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Device will be launched in Japan before the end of the year, but plans for a U.S. launch are uncertain.
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Sony said Thursday that it will begin shipping its latest Blu-ray disc player in October, the BDP-S500 in Europe, the higher-end cousin to its BDP-S300 model which will also be shipping in the region.
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Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial   Co. 6752.T said on Wednesday it would start selling two new   Blu-ray DVD recorders in Japan on November 15, heating up a   format battle for next-generation optical disc technology.
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Japan's Sony Corp, reeling from a string of production problems, has kicked off its bid for industry dominance in high-definition DVDs with a planned December launch of its new Blu-ray machine.
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The BD-HD100 will be the third recorder on the market to support the Blu-ray Disc format, which is one of two blue-laser based formats fighting to become the de-facto optical disc standard for high-definition video content.
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Sony and blue-laser diode maker Nichia have developed a component that they say is vital to realizing support for Blu-ray Disc and DVD discs in portable devices, they announced this week.
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HD for all IFA 07 High-definition at home is the big theme at the IFA consumer electronics show this year with a myriad of media players and a titanic turnout of new TVs. Not to be left out, Sony announced two new Blu-ray Disc players: the BDP-S300 and the BDP-S500.â¦
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Larger digital televisions, future DVD recording technologies on 2005 horizon.
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Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial   Co. 6752.T said on Wednesday it would launch two Blu-ray DVD   recorders in Japan on November 15, heating up a format battle   for next generation DVD technologies.
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Japanese consumer electronics company JVC has created an optical disc that contains both regular DVD and Blu-ray Disc zones. The announcement comes a month after Toshiba and Memory Tech, both members of the
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Sony Corp  said on Wednesday it  will launch four models of new Blu-ray high-definition optical  disc recorders in November in Japan, as its format battle with  the HD DVD camp heats up.
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Sony plans to begin rolling out Blu-ray discs this Fall internationally to coincide with the launch of hardware in those regions, the company said Thursday. Sony says that pricing of discs would be similar to those of standard DVD discs.
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Film giant Disney says it will produce its future DVDs using Sony&#39;s Blu-ray Disc technology, but has not ruled out a rival format developed by Toshiba.
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NEW YORK -- With dominance of the market for high-definition movie discs still up in the air, Sony Corp. said today that it is including a small surprise with the new Blu-ray disc player it is shipping this week: a price tag $100 lower than previously announced.
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(InfoWorld) - In the battle of new optical storage formats, Blu-ray Disc has added another weapon -- even more storage. Japan's TDK has developed a prototype single-sided recordable blue laser disc with a capacity of 200GB, surpassing the current 25GB capacity for single-layer Blu-ray discs and 50GB for dual-layer discs, the company announced at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin. TDK had previously developed a prototype disc with a capacity of 100GB. The latest prototype will store approximately 18 hours of high-definition video. TDK didn't say when the discs would be available. Several Hollywood film studios announced on Thursday the release of numerous titles on the Blu-ray Disc format, to be available ahead of the holiday shopping season in December.
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TOKYO, Feb. 18 -- Toshiba appears ready to ditch its HD DVD business, positioning Sony's Blu-ray technology as the likely winner in the format battle for the next generation of DVD players.
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Philips Electronics unveiled an optical disk drive on Monday for use in computers that can burn and play CDs and DVDs in three formats, including the new Blu-ray standard.