The wait is finally over.
The new wave of optical disc storage devices is upon us, in the form of Blu-Ray. The new high capacity format uses blue lasers rather than the red laser used in DVD and CD recorders. The Blue Laser has a much shorter wave length allowing for more data to be stored in the same physical space as a DVD or CD. It is a natural progression. The first commercially marketed drive is the Pioneer BDR-101A Blu-ray recorder from Pioneer. IT is expected to satrt shipping from CD-writer.com in the last week of MAY. Like all new recorders, including the Pioneer A01 – A04 – this unis is coming with ahefty price tag that reflect the point we are at within the products lifecycle. If you wasn to be an early adopter of this technology it will cost you £500. Expect Blu-Ray-Technology to be the norm within 12 months – for large data backup requirements, and expect to see growth in the use of Blu-Ray-Media for rich media applications like games and interactive video content. We are firm believer in Blu-Ray at CD-writer.com, for many reasons, that I will not start to go into here.
” source: ‘CD-writer.com’ 2006-05-26
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