The End Of War? NEC Unveiled Hybrid Next-Gen Optical Chip – Tech News – Playfuls.com – Science & Technology — This chip shoud liven things up.
NEC has announced a new invention which could mean the end of HD-DVD versus Blu-Ray conflict. According to Reuters, NEC is ready to ship a controller chip designed to play both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray content.
The price of the chip is around $84 and NEC has said that will reach estimated shipments of around 300,000 by April next year.
Another key part, an optical pickup usable on machines using both new DVD formats, is under development by another manufacturer. “We are in talks with that company so that the pickup can be built into a new line of personal computers due to hit the market next spring,” an official with NEC said.
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Compared to DVD, Hi-Def Blu-Ray and/or HD DVD have a ways to go, but this gets them closer.
Electronic/Semiconductor companies are hoping Hi-Def Blu-Ray and/or HD DVD will out sell DVD and be a larger commercial success.
I hope so too, as a consumer and chip company employee.
The advantage DVD+-RW, consumer enjoy now, they can burn and read all formats just fine in one player, even DVD-RAM. Now you can burn two-sided DVDs.
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Anyone remember where the HD mandate came from?
Great then we can throw all the non hybrid over priced drives away.
cause they will have no value at all.
Yay 🙂
Umm… The mandate that a BluRay drive can’t play HD-DVDs, and vice versa, still stands. While this is interesting technology, it doesn’t change the market position of each.
Even if they made a drive that could play both the war would continue. There is no reason to have to standards for the same thing. One would have to eventually win. No intelligent company wants to have two factories printing two identical copies on different media. Really, all the drive would do is allow you to get into the market without having to worry about your player being useless.
Personally, I don’t think either format shows any real advantage over DVD. I doubt many people can really tell the difference, and more space for the “Super Secret Special Features” really isn’t someone people are begging for. I can understand HDTVs as a step up from the grainy POS I have, but I’ve always understood the crappy picture was due to my crappy TV and not to DVDs not being good enough. But then again, I still don’t understand how Starbucks does so much buisiness.
so this will be like the +/- R drives for CD and DVD’s… good, we’ll just buy one drive to play both, like now…
Yes, most of the fuss seems to be over what the next generation of closed, proprietary, and (at least figuratively) MPAA-endorsed video standard will look like…as for putting normal data on the discs, #8 is exactly right. (Except I don’t recall a standards war over compact disc.)
BTW, has anybody noticed how bad the English grammar is in the actual article?