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03/March Sony launch the
worlds first production blu-ray disc recorder ($4000 USD) the
BDZ-S77 no sign
of any regional coding, but it's still earlier days with no pre recorded
media announced
11/Sept
Some pictures
1.
2. of a working prototype of a Sony
Blu Ray recorder with a close up of a BRD disc with
6 films on it at DVD quality!!!
1/Aug
(Been busy folks) As Philips are handling the licensing for Blu-Ray
here is their take on the Blu-Ray Disc specs
1/Aug
Two new DVD recorders from Panasonic hit the streets soon
DMR-E30
(DVD-R/DVD-RAM) and the
DMR-HS2
(DVD-R/DVD-RAM/40GBHDD) as the price of DVD-R falls, so the prospect of
Blu-Ray hardware gets ever closer
1/Aug Edward
posts a link to a Philips research site in to a
1" 1GB blue laser prototype looks cool lets hope it is supported
by the Blue Ray Disc Forum and Philips don't decide to go it alone like they
did with DVD+RW
12/April
Some news at last, Panasonic announces a tool for making
BRD lenses the news is from cdrinfo.com
25/Feb
We travel to the UK's Bristol Sound and Vision show in search of more
prototype BRD recorders but only came back of this picture of
blue vandalised push bike
still attached to a lamppost with a D-Lock
21/Feb Please Blu-Ray don't be a region coded farce like DVD
and don't be a format that prevents the digital copying/duplication of the
users own material EG camcorder footage
20/Feb A
German news article about Blu-Ray discs from
Bernd at
www.instantinfo.de
20/Feb
Andy posts some
more
UK coverage of the new format from
www.r2-dvd.org
20/Feb
James emails us with this more accurate
article from an
Australian news website
20/Feb
CNN offers the worst coverage seen to date, by continually referring to
this new format as "DVD"
DOH! Stupid! we all know it's a "CD" really, just like DVD is:-)
20/Feb We successfully secure
our new domain name www.blu-ray.org to
replace www.dvr-blue.co.uk
19/Feb
An English press release from Matsushita Japan (Panasonic to you and me)
and a piccy of a prototype
19/Feb El-Reg
in the UK supply's the basics
19/Feb
The BBC picks up on the official agreement of Blu-Ray Disc
19/Feb a machine translation of Sony Japan's
Japanese press release
19/Feb Blu-Ray/DVR-Blue Website is born after many months of delay
Wahoo, Yippee, Celebrations over, now lets try and find you something
interesting to read about blu-ray |
