TDK shows off 6x BD-R discs

by Richard Lawler, posted Jun 29th 2006 at 4:46PM

We don't even have 4x Blu-ray burners yet, but that didn't stop TDK from showing off 6x speed recordable media recently in Japan at the 8th Data Storage Expo. They also showed off a quad-layer 100GB Blu-ray disc, although it was only a prototype, they do expect to ship 4x discs before the end of this year. We're looking forward to burning 25-50GB at a time, we're not looking forward to waiting an hour for it to finish. These high speed discs need to get here and fast, HD DVD-Rs need to get their speed up to compete (actually, they need to become available at all but thats just splitting hairs).

Filed under: Industry, Sony

Tags: 6x, bd-r, blu-ray, dvd, hdtv, high definition, HighDefinition, tdk

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Eli @ Jun 30th 2006 1:14AM

So it seems that Blu-Ray has the upper hand in the consumer computer electronics market with both drives and media ahead of HD-DVD, while on the comsumer home theater side HD-DVD is in the lead with more players and content. Am I the only one who is a little confused by this?

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Ben Hobbs @ Jun 30th 2006 1:31PM

I think it means that HD DVD is really pushing the High Def features whilst Blu-Ray is still trying to be a bit of everything at once.

I'm starting to believe that HD DVD will be the High Def DVD format and Blu-Ray will be used in computers, oh and the PS3 - whatever they decide it is this week "PC, Home Entertainment Unit or Heaven forbid a games console".

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