1st Blu Ray drive....doesn't play Blu-Ray movies

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Sony, are you for real?

Sony officially announced its BWU-100A product at its "Experience More 2006" event in Sydney yesterday, all the while acknowledging that there's significant room for improvement before the product is viable for integration into media centre PCs.

Vincent Bautista, Sony's product manager for data storage, told CNET.com.au that due to copy protection issues and lagging software development, the drive will only play user-recorded high-definition content from a digital camcorder, and not commercial movies released under the BD format.

 

[Nokkie]

what is the capacity of this blue ray disk?

 

[Peppercorns]

From what I've read and heard, a normal blue-ray disk can take 50gigs of data, but dual layers can have about 100gigs of data. Double sided dual layer ones can take up to 200gigs.

That is at least what I've heard....not 100% sure and could stand to be corrected..

 

[Nokkie]

holy damn!

 

[Peppercorns]

Aren't they Obsolete?

Another thing to add to this thread.....

I've recently read in the latest PC Format magazine that Blue-ray disks are obsolete. Aparently, they are making disks on holographic design.... these disk look like stiffy disks, except a bit smaller and fatter.

They can hold up to 1.6 Terabytes of data.

Only problem is, they are mainly made for businesses, and you won't question that statement with the cost of a drive is estimated at R120 000 and R900 per disk....

Interesting hey?

 

[Vio]

They called HVD. go checkem on wiki

 

[Peppercorns]

Will do, Thanx Vio

 

[arf9999]

Sony, are you for real?

er... did you read the article? It has little to do with the drive itself. The problem is the "High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP)" on the disks. I requires HDMI output, and a stand alone drive cannot offer it. This problem will occur with HD-DVD PC drives as well, since they use the same HDCP protection. This is likely a short term problem until the player software & graphics card vendors release the required software updates for HDMI enabled cards.

PS: I'm not sure how this can be the "first Blu-Ray Drive" when there is one in Sony's AR VAIO... which plays movies just fine... if you can find them

 

[nocilah]

just like what killed sony's mp3 player market this will kill their blu ray market. copyright protection.

then they are going to complain.

 

[arf9999]

OK, here you go, a good article on this:
http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3369

We Say: I see why the limitation exists, but despite that, many won’t, and you can bet this will just add to the Sony-bashing going on.

..and the obviously bad, misinformed one (hey, it's kotaku, what do you expect?): http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/more-bluray-hilarity-193827.php

And it's $750! ROFL. Oh, Sony. Will you ever learn?

The comments at kotaku are pretty classic, just when you think it is impossible for anyone to be so misinformed...