New Laser to Replace Blu-ray

Sony recently announced they are developing a new type of blue-violet ultra-fast pulsed laser for optical disks that would increase storage capacity up to 20X of current Blu-ray Discs.

This means that a blue-violet based disc could hold up to 50 movies or an entire season of a TV show on one disk.

The adoption process for Blu-ray is going at a snails pace, so I wouldn't look for this technology to come any time soon.� Just know it is possible.

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More HD DVD players than Blu-ray players in America. Still. In 2009.

It's crazy to me that the biggest reason that Blu-Ray had a luke warm reception in the first place, was down to the fact that Sony kept bringing out new profiles, and each time it was more than likely that your very expensive Blu-Ray player would need to be replaced with another player.

It's nice to see that Sony has given us a couple of years to invest in new profile 2 hardware, just for them to bring out a need to buy a new player all over again!!!

This is at the heart of what is spoilling Ble-Ray's adoption in to the market, with high prices being the second reason.

On the other hand, if Microsoft release a new Xbox, it would be stupid to not move to a Blu-Ray based storage system - lets face it, DVD is out of steam already, and not all the world has ultra fast broadband connections, and not to mention the fact that MS's movies are not available in many countries.

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Blu-ray on Xbox 360: Never. Thank goodness for that

OK, I get all of your points as to why MS supporting Blue-Ray is a bad thing Andy. �But what your (MS) doing, is making me buy a PS3, because the stand alone Blue-Ray players are an unknown quantity if Sony choose to roll out a new profile.

MS offer downloads, but they are only for American users, the rest of the world has 2 choices, buy a PS3, or take a gamble on a stand alone player, either way, this is not a win for us consumers, nor is it a win for Microsoft.

I love my Xbox360, and I love the HD-DVD player, and I would love a Blue-Ray player to make my Xbox give me the best of all worlds.

I fail to see why you think this is a good situation?

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