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• HD-DVD won't output full quality to current HDTV devices

  “The movie industry and others will go to great lengths to combat piracy, even if that means hurting early adopters of HDTV technology by crippling functionality. AACS, the DRM-esque technology for HD-DVD players, will not produce a full quality signal from component video connectors, as analog is "unsafe". The resulting resolution is 960x540 - more than a standard TV, but vastly inferior to the actual 1920x1080 resolution that HD will support natively. That's not the end of it either.” source: 'DittoIt' 2006-02-25
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  Saturday, February 25, 2006

• What You Must Know About Holographic Storage

  “The so-called fourth generation of optical storage format has been highly promoted lately, and considering that neither the Blu-Ray nor the HD DVD has become a de facto standard for HD content, Optware and Inphase Technologies offer prospects for terrabytes of storage.” source: 'CDRinfo' 2006-02-24
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• NEC Leaning Towards Blu-Ray

  “With Sony and Nec's merge of optical disc business into a new company, industry analysts are now predicting that NEC is looking towards the Blu-Ray camp.” source: 'CDRinfo' 2006-02-22
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• Blue Laser Format Testing

  “HD DVD and Blu-ray drives, like their predecessors the CD and DVD formats will be tested in order to provide information on the quality of the media. In order, to design a Blu-ray or HD DVD test system, the manufacturer needs to understand the main differences between the new and old formats.” source: 'CDRinfo' 2006-02-20
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• AACS Interim Licensing Begins

  “The Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator (AACS LA) Group released on Saturday the v0.91 AACS specifications and made the interim licensing agreement for available HD DVD and Blu-Ray products.” source: 'CDRinfo' 2006-02-20
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• Toshiba, LG to share CD, DVD, HD DVD toys

  “Toshiba and LG have agreed to share their respective optical disc patent portfolios the better to make each company's product development budget go further.
  ” source: 'reghardware.co.uk' 2006-02-16
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  Thursday, February 16, 2006

• DVD Pioneer Hansen to Open First Indie HD Blu-ray Disc Facilities

  “DVD pioneer Erick Hansen, founder and Chairman of Blue Ray Technology, will open the perhaps the first independent Blu-Ray factories to make high definition discs for the next generation of the super quality format.
  
  ”source:'avinfo.co.uk' 2006-02-16
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• Nero and Samsung Demo First Functional Blu-ray Devices

  “Nero, leaders in digital media technologies, announced today that Samsung is sending out test samples in Europe of its Samsung Blu-ray disc devices together with a special test version of Nero 7 supporting the Blu-ray disc format.
  ”source:'creativemac.com/articles' 2006-02-16
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• HD DVD and Blu-ray delayed again, as AACS is pushed back

  “According to a report at Heise online, the members of the AACS licensing authority could not agree on a final specification last week. The hold up must infuriate HD DVD backers, because the last sticking point apparently only applies to the Blu-ray specific BD+ anti-piracy measure.
  ” source:'arstechnica.com/news.ars' 2006-02-16
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• Burn-and-print device announced for Blu-ray

  “Primera Technology has announced an automated burn-and-print device for Blu-ray media. Known as the Bravo XR-Blu Disc Publisher, the device is a Pioneer BDR-101A Blu-ray Disc/DVD recorder with full-colour direct-to-disc inkjet printing.” source: 'techspot.com/news' 2006-02-16
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• HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Delayed Again Because of Blu-Ray?

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• Blu-Ray Causes Next-Gen Media Delays

  “It may be a little bit longer before you are able to get your hands on a HD DVD version of Firefly thanks to Blu-Ray.” source: 'us.gizmodo.com'2006-02-16
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• Philips Electronics Showcases new Blu-ray Disc

  “Philips Blu-ray Disc - HD content
  Blu-ray Disc technology is based on blue lasers, rather than the red laser used with CDs and DVDs. This allows for a much sharper laser focus, smaller pits on the disc and a huge increase in storage capacity. Blu-ray Disc has the support and technological innovation behind it to be the industry leader and is supported by more than 160 of the world's largest gaming manufacturers, movie studios, consumer electronics and PC manufacturers. The new technology provides consumers with the highest quality level of HD content, not matched by any other HD video source.
  ” source: 'letsgodigital'2006-02-16
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• SONY BDZ-S77 Recorder Review

  “SONY BDZ-S77 DVD recorder based on blu-ray media is probably positioned for the Japanese and US consumer markets with their digital satellite broadcasting bringing high-definition TV to a growing number of houses.” source: 'digit-life.com' 2006-02-16
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• HD DVD and Blu-ray delayed again, as AACS is pushed back

  “When Blu-ray announced their additional protection measures in August of last year, it was largely thought that the extra lockdown was there to woo content owners, especially FOX. BD+ is a dynamic encryption scheme that allows for changing encryption schemes midstream. Should the encryption be cracked, the Blu-ray Disc group can update the encryption scheme and put it on all new discs, thus preventing a single crack from opening up the entire BD spec for the duration of its lifetime. The lack of a dynamic encryption model is what made DeCSS so disastrous in the industry's eyes: once CSS was cracked, all DVDs from then on were crackable. AACS attempts to deal with this problem, but Blu-ray's members believed that additional protection was necessary.” source: 'Arstechnica.com' 2006-02-15
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  Wednesday, February 15, 2006

• Blu-Ray Reveals its Latest Developments

  “In an exclusive interview with CDRinfo Brian Zucker, a technology strategist at Dell who also serves as a Blu-ray executive, reveals the latest developments in the Blu-ray camp.
  
  Mr. Zucker explains to the CDRinfo news team the main advantages of the Blu-ray format versus the HD DVD one.He also gives us the most recent information regarding the specifications of Blu-ray products and the role of Sony's PS3 in the Blu-ray marketing.
  
  He explains the AACS specifications (BD+, Mandatory Managed Copy) to the end user and how its implementation on the market will take place. Mr. Zucker unfolds the latest news on the the regional coding issue of Blu-Ray videos. Finally, Mr. Zucker is categorically negative when quesionned on the possibility of seeing an eventual combo device, using both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats. ” source: 'The CDRinfo' 2006-02-13
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  Monday, February 13, 2006

• Nero and Samsung Race to Bring Out the First Functional Blu-ray Devices

  “Nero anounced today that Samsung is sending out test samples in Europe of its Samsung Blu-ray disc devices together with a special test version of Nero 7 supporting the Blu-ray disc format.” source: 'CDRinfo' 2006-02-09
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  Friday, February 10, 2006

• Pioneer BDR-102A Blu-Ray Burner to Support BD/DVD/CD Recording

  “Following the release of the BDR-101A writer, the second Blu-Ray DVD burner from the Japanese company will support recording of BD-R/RE, DVD recordable/rewritable and also "legacy" CD-Rs. The drive will retail later this year.” source: 'CDRinfo' 2006-01-12
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• Sony next-generation DVDs to cost about 20 pct more

  “LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sony Pictures on Thursday disclosed prices for movies on its new Blu-ray DVD format, setting a target range seen as a 15-to-20 percent premium to the current DVD standard.
  ” source: 'Reuters Tech' 2006-02-10
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• Disc vendor snubs HD-DVD for Blu-ray

  TDK, one of the leading vendors of DVD discs, is not going to sell media for next-generation high definition HD-DVD drives and will concentrate instead on rival Blu-ray.
  

  
  The company, a member of the Blu-ray Association, has long been a backer of the technology, but other media vendors, such as Imation, are happy to sell both Blu-ray and HD-DVD discs.
  

  
  Corporate strategy director Jean-Paul Eekhout agreed that sticking to Blu-ray would limit TDK's market initially; but he believed it would win the battle with HD-DVD because it offers more capacity (25GB per disc compared with 15GB) and would, he claimed, bring burners to the market sooner.
  

  
  He said Blu-ray would also get a big boost with the release of Sony's Playstation 3 games console this year.

  TDK will offer both read-only and rewritable discs, known respectively as BD and BD-RE media (the RW suffix of previous disc generations has been dropped, apparently for the benefit of non-English speakers, to whom it naturally makes more sense than giving 'writable' a ghost 'w').source: 'DittoIt' 2006-02-05
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  Sunday, February 05, 2006

• First Look: Samsung SH-B022 Blu-Ray Burner

  “For all those who enjoy early information, the first preview of Samsung's SH-B022 Blu-Ray burner for PCs has been published online. The drive writes 25GB of data in less than 45 minutes.” source: 'CDRinfo' 2006-01-26
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  Thursday, February 02, 2006

• Philips Blu-ray TripleWriter SPD7000 Comes 2nd Half of 2006

  “Philips announced the Blu-ray Disc, DVD and CD writer for PCs at the CES 2006. I oversaw this release, but stumbled over it again, when the first review of a Blu-ray disc writer appeared last week. The Samsung SH-B022 Blu-ray writer is only able to ...” source: 'I4U' 2006-01-31
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  Wednesday, February 01, 2006

• Pioneer BDR-102A Blu-Ray Burner to Support BD/DVD/CD Recording

  “Following the release of the BDR-101A writer, the second Blu-Ray DVD burner from the Japanese company will support recording of BD-R/RE, DVD recordable/rewritable and also "legacy" CD-Rs. The drive will retail later this year.” source: 'CDRinfo' 2006-01-12
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• Samsung Open to Support Both Blu-Ray, HD DVD formats

  “It is not the first time the Korean giant says that it could release an HD DVD /Blu-Ray player, and after last week's CES in Las Vegas, the possibilities are higher.” source: 'CDRinfo' 2006-01-09
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