Strictly Rumor at this point - Blu-Ray on the way?

wcoxe1 wrote on 11/6/2004, 4:34 PM
Picked this up on a "rumor" site:

Matsushita, the parent company of JVC, Quasar, Technics and Panasonic has signed a MOU (Memorandum Of Understanding) with Sony and Canon about four weeks ago to develop High Definition-DVD Pro-sumer HD-DVD camcorders approximating the size and the weight of today's PV400 with a NEW BLU-RAY disk which will now have a capacity of 8GB up to 50GB will be incorporated. This disk will come in a new compact size for all three companies to put in a mini-HD cam. The highest resolutions of HD will be possible as well as the new standard for Digital Audio of 8cm. The first three models are expected with-in only 6 months. The first will incorporate BLU-RAY @ 15GB which is sufficient for High Definition of just over 1 hour duration. The quality of the BLU-RAY disk will "surpass" that of current DVD's. The prices for this new format will be LESS than current Pro-sumer HD-DV.

The run-on sentences and bad grammar are as I found, copied, and pasted it. It COULD have been clearer.

Interesting, in any case!

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 11/6/2004, 9:24 PM
http://www.blu-ray.com/ceatec2004/

Not a rumor. Fox has jumped on the bandwagon, as have others. Recently announced by TDK is a coating that makes Blu-Ray more impervious to fingerprints and so forth than current DVD formats.
Grazie wrote on 11/6/2004, 10:05 PM
Hmmm .. . Secondhand market looks good - eh? But yes . . very exciting times ahead. G
farss wrote on 11/7/2004, 1:57 AM
If TDK has managed to fix the fingerprint problem that is good news.

My money is still on red laser DVDs, given that we can squeeze the same amount of video in HiDef onto the same media with smarter silicon, burn it in existing burners and duplicate in existing plant that is surely the way to go.

Now the next big question is, when can we author BluRay DVDs in Vegas?
Bob.