Mitsubishi ramps up Blu-ray recordable disc manufacturing
Add Mitsubishi Kagaku Media (Mitsubishi, Verbatim) to the list of manufacturers expanding Blu-ray support in the pending absence of HD DVD. The manufacturer, which has been releasing recordable media for both sides, is adding a Blu-ray production line to its Singapore plant that will expand companywide production from 200,000 to 700,000 units a month when it comes online in July or August, along with production outsourced to other manufacturers. Nothing is set in stone, but hopefully those of us recording movies and data 50GB at a time have more plentiful (and cheaper) discs to look forward to.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jove @ Mar 1st 2008 9:34PM
awesome!
shawnmos @ Mar 1st 2008 9:53PM
Once these get cheap enough I think I'll start transferring my HD DVDs onto blu-ray.
Michael @ Mar 3rd 2008 10:23AM
How can you transfer HDDVD to Blu ray?
shawnmos @ Mar 3rd 2008 1:54PM
Rip it to the hard drive and burn it to a BD. They use the same codecs.
AVMaxMan @ Mar 1st 2008 10:39PM
It doesn't surprise me that Mitsubishi is bumping up production of Blu-ray media. I also think that this is just the start of things to come now that the format war is over. Look for more companies to come on board with Blu-ray in the near future.
Xyzzy @ Mar 1st 2008 10:47PM
"but hopefully those of us recording movies and data 50GB at a time have more plentiful (and cheaper) discs to look forward to."
Yeah, except the disks are only 25G....
It's going to be a VERY long time before DL-BD disks are affordable. How many people use dual layer DVD-R disks right now? Not many because the price is so much higher than single layer DVD-Rs.
Dave @ Mar 2nd 2008 3:47AM
You have no idea what you are talking about right? If you buy 7 DL DVDs to match single BD 50 flick you will save almost that much to cover the inconvenience to deal with 7 instead of 1 disc and will have a failure rate about 7:1.
You are just a hd dvd fanboi who never learns!
Xyzzy @ Mar 2nd 2008 9:54AM
WTF is wrong with this site?! Dave doesn't know how to read but he gets rated "Highly Ranked" by the BD fanboys?!
I wasn't even frick'n talking about HD DVD in my post! I'm saying that nobody is going to use DL BD disks for burning for a long time because it'll be far more expensive than 2 single layer BD disks.
Hooked on Phonics, Dave. Try it out.
Dave @ Mar 2nd 2008 4:50PM
You are as dumb as anyone would expect. Who is telling you that you are talking about hd dvd in your post??? You are talking about DVD and BD and i am explaining to you how the this are indeed.
You are known hd dvd fanboy and you are proving it with every post trying to make BD look bad but you failed ... again :)
Sean @ Mar 1st 2008 11:30PM
YEah, DL-BDs are a dream, cheap ones that is. SINGle layers, bring em on for cheap and soon.
k2 @ Mar 2nd 2008 1:00AM
Anyone know of a blu-ray recorder that can copy from a directv dvr in high def thru hdmi or composite?
Dave @ Mar 2nd 2008 3:44AM
I am brining 1 50GB Blu-ray once every 3-4 days... this is great news for me!!!
paradigmsick @ Mar 2nd 2008 5:23AM
Ummm, why cant they actually make the drives more affordable and with full compatibility b4 they shoot blanks at us. blu ray reader drives arent even cheap enough to buy yet. The manufacture process of the blu ray drives is still costly as when they first started. Take the ps3 for example most of its cost is due to the laggy blu ray drive onboard. PS im not a fanboy or what ever name is popular with internet geeks these days.
DrXym @ Mar 2nd 2008 6:11AM
In the short term, you still have an HD DVD player to play content, mid term probably ripping to HDD or transcoding to BD9 might be the best way to watch. And finally in a couple of years when BD burners are affordable $150 and discs are $5-10 a pop, back up all of the content to BD. You'd probably get the content of 2 HD DVD discs onto a single BD if you dumped unneeded or unsupported sound tracks and / or transcoded some of the secondary content. It might even be possible to make tools that transfer chapters, subtitles, menu structure etc. into the equivalent BD.
Down @ Mar 2nd 2008 6:41AM
Is it possible for a blu-ray disc to have more than 2 layers?
DrXym @ Mar 2nd 2008 9:53AM
4 layers have been claimed but I very much doubt that they could produce such a format and have every existing player just work with it. Most likely they wouldn't work at all, or would require a firmware update to recognize the layers at the very least.
AVMaxMan @ Mar 2nd 2008 1:49PM
Like all new things to the market you're going to pay a premium at first. Look at plasma TV's when they 1st came out $10,000 for 42" Sony, sure Blu-ray's not new but now that the war has been won it's easier for consumers to make a decision. Now because we are so impatient we are complaining about cost. Relax it's gonna take time for many consumers to come around to everything Blu-ray once this happens you'll be able to pick up DL-BD's & BD Burners for cheap.
Xyzzy @ Mar 2nd 2008 4:14PM
Dual-layer BD is never going to be "cheap." Take a look at regular DVD-R media;
Single layer: $0.26/each:
http://meritline.com/ritek-ridata-16x-dvd-r-media-dvdr-blank-media-silver-matte.html
Dual layer: $1.35/each:
http://meritline.com/ritek-ridata-4x-dual-layer-dl-dvd-r-disc-branded.html
More than 5x the cost for only 2x the storage. BD is going to be the same way. Just like the masses don't use DL-DVD, the masses also won't use DL-BD, it just isn't cost effective.
Jove @ Mar 2nd 2008 11:55PM
please people. we can all understand eachother and get along fine without fighting or arguing.