Taiwan makers to launch next-gen Blu-ray discs

[Ilya]

Apple Daily, February 6; Carrie Yu, DigiTimes.com [Monday 6 February 2006]

CMC Magnetics and Ritek may launch next-generation Blu-ray discs as early as the end of this quarter, with CMC Magnetics already in trial production of HD DVD and Blu-ray discs, according to today's Chinese-language Apple Daily.
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[T2k]

So HD-DVD will have more than a full quarter advantage? Wow.
I wonder who will pay all the bills at Blu-Ray - because if they will want to make you and me, the customers to pay it, they will lose this battle pretty quickly.

 

[mike123abc]

So HD-DVD will have more than a full quarter advantage? Wow.
I wonder who will pay all the bills at Blu-Ray - because if they will want to make you and me, the customers to pay it, they will lose this battle pretty quickly.

Where can you buy HD-DVD today? The article said end of this quarter or end of next month for BR. HD-DVD got held up by copy protection standards. This has let BR catch up some.

 

[T2k]

Where can you buy HD-DVD today? The article said end of this quarter or end of next month for BR.

Yes, that's when BD-R manuf will start - which part you don't understand?
HD-DVD will go on sale within weeks with loaded inventories - and Blu-Ray will be missing from the party for months.

HD-DVD got held up by copy protection standards.

Actually it was held up by Blu-Ray's monkey business on AACS standardisation, I think...

This has let BR catch up some.

Blu-Ray believed the same thing but apparently it didn't. Blu-Ray has much deeper problems in its business plan than simple timing - it's simply waaaay too expensive, it lacks plenty of much touted features and capabilities, it's less durable etc etc. Sony knows it very well but it won't give up, NEVER.
A Blu-Ray victory ALONE would make Sony's next financial *decade* firm and cushy...