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[Amir0x]

I searched for "Panasonic + HP" in the engine and found nothing related to this so I thought maybe it was new

Story can be read here

Panasonic and HP fall in love, produce truce on recordable DVD and alliance on Blu-ray

You’re still going to have to deal with all those different conflicting recordable DVD formats, but HP and Panasonic have managed to come together to increase the peace and bring just a little more harmony to this fractured world of ours. Here’s the scoop: Panasonic, which until now had been firmly ensconced in the DVD-R camp, has agreed to add DVD+R/RW to their standalone DVD recorders, and in exchange HP has committed to supporting DVD-RAM in their PCs. A small step forward, but since DVD is more or less on its way out (or at least on its way to being replaced by a higher capacity optical disc), the potentially more significant news is that the two companies have forged an alliance to further Blu-ray, with HP planning to add Blu-ray Disc burners to their PCs.

Discuss!

 

[psycho_snake]

Im not exactly well educated with these things, so can someone tell me what exactly are the capabilities of Blu-ray and the capabilities of HD-DVD. Also, Do we know which format will be used for the next gen.

 

[SKluck]

Not really suprising. HP still refuses to believe DVD-R exists.

 

[jiggle]

Also, Do we know which format will be used for the next gen.

Xbox2 - HD
PS3 - BR





i think?....

 

[Amir0x]

Xbox2 - HD
PS3 - BR





i think?....

you think correctly jiggle-san

 

[kaching]

Panasonic (Matsushita) and HP were already in the Blu-Ray camp.

 

[teh_pwn]

"Im not exactly well educated with these things, so can someone tell me what exactly are the capabilities of Blu-ray and the capabilities of HD-DVD."

BR >> HDDVD

BR has the potential for several times the memory capacity of HDDVDs.

 

[psycho_snake]

"Im not exactly well educated with these things, so can someone tell me what exactly are the capabilities of Blu-ray and the capabilities of HD-DVD."

BR >> HDDVD

BR has the potential for several times the memory capacity of HDDVDs.

Will game devs actually be able to fill up the whole memory of the disk or not. Blu Ray will be more expensive than HD-DVD and if game devs are not using Blu-ray to full potential, wont people be buying something thats costs a lot more than they should?

 

[teh_pwn]

Will game devs actually be able to fill up the whole memory of the disk or not. Blu Ray will be more expensive than HD-DVD and if game devs are not using Blu-ray to full potential, wont people be buying something thats costs a lot more than they should?

I'm a little out of date with specs, so someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Developers can easily fill up the discs. Several games already take dual layer DVDs right now, with the low res textures and video of this generation. The next gen consoles will fully support HDTVs, meaning much larger video files (3x resolution), higher resolution textures, etc. I don't know what type of blue ray discs PS3 will use, but I doubt it will be the 8 layered discs that hold 200 GB.

HDDVDs are slightly less expensive in the short run because manufacturers can modify their DVD making hardware. However, blueray discs aren't going to be much more expensive initially according to projections. Sony recently made a disc on paper, and ran it in a demonstration.

Also, blueray would be cheaper for the movie industry in the long run because HDDVDs just don't have enough space for HD movies, and there will likely be yet another format to replace HDDVDs shortly if it defeats BR (or we'll have 2-4 disc movies, and like 20 disc TV series...ew..). HDDVDs have a maximum of 2 layers, 20 GB each, so 40 GB max.

Edit: Actually, HDDVDs would be cheaper for the movie industry because they'll get to sell the same movie again!