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Sony to Ship Blank Blu-Ray Discs This Month at $30 Each

Sony has finally announced that the empty Blu-ray discs will begin shipping this month in Europe. For a whooping US$30, you’ll get a measly 25GB single layer BD-R. And in April, the rewritable BD-RE will follow, at a price of $36. Thanks, but no thanks Sony. I’m back to my trusty DVDs for now.

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Pioneer’s High-End Blu-Ray Player Coming in May

The best out there, and one of the very first. The Pioneer BDP-HD1 Blu-ray player comes with a huge $1,800 price tag and is expected to be available in May this year. The player is capable of playing back dual-layer (50GB) Blu-ray disc, and delivers 1920 x 1080p output (the highest of the three HD signals). [...]

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Pioneer Blu-Ray Burner Debuts January

Another step closer for Blu-Ray to hit market! Pioneer officially announced yesterday their BDR-101A Blu-Ray burner. The drive is capable of writing single-layer 25GB discs and at a speed of 72Mbps. With my über-Babelfish-reading skill, here are some other tidbits I managed to decipher: Each disc can fit 2 hours or more of HD video (I believe [...]

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Panasonic Begins Production of 50GB Blu-Ray Discs

Everyone’s going gaga over the Maxell 1.6-terabyte holographic disc. But don’t hold your breath for it, it’s still too early. Panasonic has modified its pilot production line and will begin producing dual-layer Blu-ray discs, also known as BD-ROM. Each of these dual-layer disc can hold up to 50GB of data, much more than the 8.5GB [...]

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