Originally published June 21 2005
Consumer high-capacity storage devices are being held up by industry clashes
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
This article in Bit Yard describes the hold-ups and advances in high-capacity storage devices like Blue Ray Discs and HDDVDs.
It will give you storage capacity of 25GB single layer, 50GB double layer.
Folks in Japan and other areas of the Pacific Basin have been buying BD recorders for about two years and have not only paid dearly for the hardware but also the cartridge discs.
Lots of folks say that the two technology approach camps are holding things up from getting burners, recorders and media to the market and making it hugely successful.
The word that Sony and Toshiba are now in discussions to develop one standard has been heralded as the definitive breakthrough and we can expect a new solution shortly.
Compromise Is Really Hard Everyone - Studios, hardware folks, software developers, media producers and retailers - wants a compromise.
By upgrading DVDs with HiDef content and interactive features it's something they all hope you just gotta have!
Engineers on both sides of the aisle have spent years on their formats and compromising their technical children will be a hard pill to swallow.
Common logic says that with the manufacturers and content owners involved it will take four to six months to hammer out the details of the compromise.
That's making IDC's projections that Blue technology will only have about 1% of the DVD burner sales by 2010 look dramatically optimistic...
Lest you forget there is one little item that also needs to be solved - content protection.
This is designed to control digital rights on downloading movies, burning them to DVDs, sharing them at home or using them in your portable/car video players.
While Panasonic agrees that a compromise Blue-ray solution is best, they have begun BD-ROM pilot production down in Hollywood.
While the record industry recently saw an uptic in CD sales (the first in a couple of years) they are determined to press their lawsuits at every turn.
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