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• Pioneer and NEC to Showcase Next-gen DVD Drives in December

  “Pioneer and NEC will respectively showcase their Blu-ray Disc (BD) and HD-DVD burners and players at the annual IT Month fair beginning in December in Taipei.” source: 'CDRinfo' 2005-11-25
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  Saturday, November 26, 2005

• PS3 to launch at under $400; will ship with media bundle

  “ Sony's new CEO has stated that the Playstation 3 will launch priced in the $300 to $400 price range.  The company will sell the console at a significant loss in order to ensure the successful market penetration of Blu-ray technology:
  
  Another element which does directly cite the British-born Sony boss, however, is regarding the media...” source: 'Anandtech' 2005-11-22
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  Thursday, November 24, 2005

• Sony Blu-Ray High Definition DVD Recorder Player Blue

  “This unit is Brand New in its original Sony Sealed Box and is Not Refubished Stores up to 25 Full-Length Movies on a Single Blu-Ray Disc Includes one blank 23 Gigabyte Blu-Ray DVD Disc” source: 'Ebay' 2005-11-23
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  Wednesday, November 23, 2005

• Sony Claims Completion of First Blu-ray Disc Movie

  “Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) president Benjamin S. Feingold announced last Friday that authoring has been completed on the first Blu-ray Disc (BD) to contain a full-length, high-definition feature film.” source: 'CDRinfo' 2005-11-21
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  Tuesday, November 22, 2005

• Panasonic Develops First Chipset for Multi-format Blu-Ray Drives

  “Panasonic today announced that it has developed the new chipset for disc drives to record and play Blu-ray Disc (BD), DVD-Multi (DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, and DVD-ROM), +R, +RW, and all CD formats.” source: 'CDRinfo' 2005-11-18
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• NTI Offers Blu-ray Burning SDK for Licensing

  “NewTech Infosystems, Inc. announced today that it has added support for Blu-ray to its widely-used optical disc burning SDK.” source: 'CDRinfo' 2005-11-16
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  Thursday, November 17, 2005

• Blu-ray, HP at odds over high-def DVD launch plan

  “LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Blu-ray Disc group, which aims to set the standard for next-generation DVDs, on Wednesday said it would not adopt a proposal from Hewlett-Packard Co. by the launch of the technology, leading the PC maker to say it may back a rival in the looming multibillion dollar war.” source: 'Reuters Tech' 2005-11-17
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• News: Opinion: More from the Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD front

  “Content is king. This long-held observation has often been cited by those who believe content availability could tip the scales in a format war. The most recent spate of content-related announcements from backers of Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD — the formats competing for the throne currently occupied by DVD — appear to shift the balance between the two camps — at least, for the moment.” source: 'MacWorld' 2005-11-15
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  Tuesday, November 15, 2005

• Imation Unveils Plans For HD DVD and Blu-ray Media

  “Imation said that it is currently finalizing the development of both HD DVD and Blu-ray optical recordable media. Imation is a member of the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) and DVD Forum.” source: 'CDRinfo' 2005-11-10
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  Saturday, November 12, 2005

• MPEG LA Announces Plan for Blu-Ray Patent License

  “MPEG LA, LLC issued a call for patents and patent applications that are essential to the Blu-ray Standard, in an effort to bring together the essential patent holders aiming at the efficient adoption in devices, discs and related implementations.” source: 'CDRinfo' 2005-11-10
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  Thursday, November 10, 2005

• MGM to support Blu-ray Disc Format

  “Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. on Wednesday said it would support the new high definition Blu-ray Disc format, created by a group led by Sony.
  

  
  The MGM announcement marks the latest move in an increasingly heated battle over rival DVD technologies between the Sony-led camp and another group led by Toshiba, which is pushing a format known as HD DVD.
  

  
  MGM's move was not considered a surprise as the studio behind the lucrative James Bond film franchise was bought in April by an investor group including private equity firms Providence Equity Partners and Texas Pacific Group, as well as Sony and Comcast. ” source: 'CDRinfo' 2005-11-10
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• Fight over dominant DVD format intensifies

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  Both camps have garnered followers over the years. Besides Sony and Matsushita, the Blu-ray format has gained support from several other industry heavyweights, including Phillips, Sharp, Pioneer, LG Phillips, 21st Century Fox, Disney, Dell, HP and Apple. The HD-DVD camp, on the other hand, has snagged NEC, Sanyo, Microsoft, Intel, Universal and Warner Music. Currently, only Paramount has expressed support for both.
  

  
  Sony and Toshiba -- leaders of the two opposing camps -- tried this year to negotiate a deal that could lead to mutual benefit, but the billion-dollars' worth of yearly royalties and the continual profit at stake, and most importantly, the huge differences between the two formats, have prevented the two camps from reaching an agreement.
  

  
  The Blu-ray format uses a 1.1 mm disc covered with a protective layer of merely 0.1 mm. By contrast, HD-DVD uses 0.6 mm disc with 0.6 mm protective coating.
  

  
  Taiwan is also striving to be a player in the field. The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and Taiwan Advanced Optical Storage Research Alliance (AOSRA) co-developed a new DVD format entitled FVD, which stands for "Forward Versatile Disc." A double-layered FVD disc can have a capacity of 9.8 to 11 GB. The track pitch has been reduced to 0.64 mm.
  

  
  Huang Der-ray, deputy general director of opto-electronics and systems laboratories in ITRI, said a FVD prototype has already been completed and the FVD-format disc will be available by the end of the year.
  

  
  

  
  ” source: 'DittoIt' 2005-11-09
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  Wednesday, November 09, 2005

• Toshibas strategy: Grab China DVD market from Sony at any risk

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  In the high-stakes battle with Sony over whose format will power the next generation of DVD players, Toshiba has adopted a potentially perilous strategy: encouraging low-cost Chinese competitors to crank out machines using its standard, known as HD-DVD.

  Courting Chinese makers has been largely taboo in Japan, where manufacturers like Sony and Panasonic have long tried to delay the transition of their technologies into cheap commodities.
  

  Toshiba?s decision could have major ramifications in the race for the billions of dollars likely to flow from the next generation of DVD technology, which promises enhanced pictures and audio and more disc space.
  

  Toshiba and Sony have been fighting an increasingly bitter war over which technology will become the industry standard. It is a fight that carries particular significance for Sony, which once championed the higher-quality Betamax but still lost the battle over the standard for videocassettes.
  

  In the latest brawl, negotiations to merge their formats failed, so the two sides have been lobbying Hollywood studios, disc manufacturers, computer giants like Dell and software moguls like Microsoft, as well as retailers like Best Buy.
  

  Sony and others developing a technology known as Blu-ray have won major victories by persuading more studios to put movies into their format. Sony also plans to include Blu-ray technology in its PlayStation 3 game consoles when they are released in the spring, effectively turning them into Blu-ray DVD players.
  

  To thwart Sony, Toshiba has reached a bargain with Chinese manufacturers. By making its technology available to them, Toshiba hopes to get cheaper HD-DVD players in the stores months ahead of Sony, Panasonic and other Blu-ray companies
  
  
  
  

  
  ” source: 'DittoIt' 2005-11-05
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  Saturday, November 05, 2005

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