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November 16, 2006The HD disc format war hots up
LG has decided to back the Blu-Ray camp in the pointless and needless HD video format war.
It's touting its GBW H10N Blu-ray drive that can write discs at four speed - faster than anyone else.
The GBW H10N Blu-ray drive arrives with the fastest write speed of any first generation Blu-ray drive, at 4x. It will also write to all of the other blank DVD formats - DVD±R, DVD±RW and DVD-RAM - at up to 12x. Lg_blu_ray_drive Blank Blu-ray discs come in two capacities, single-layer 25GB and dual-layer 50GB varieties – 10 times more than a typical blank DVD. That said, they also cost quite a lot more too.
Let's hope someone bangs ALL their heads together and they settle on a common format before CES. We'd also like world peace and flying cars, thanks ta.
More, more more over at Active Home.
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As the launch editor of one of the first UK leading consumer video magazines and witness to the time- and money-wasting VHS vs Betamax videotape format 'war' in the 1980s, will someone PLEASE get the AV industry around a table to agree ONE HD-TV and ONE HD-DVD format?!!! Alernatively, we should all BOYCOTT ALL HD-TVs and ALL HD-DVD players/recorders UNTIL the industry announces just ONE FORMAT!!!
Posted by :Al Shriver | November 17, 2006 2:03 PM
Totally agree on the disc front - but the TV side is pretty much sorted out.
True there's 720p and 1080i/p - but to be honest, unless you've got a telly bigger than 32in then 720p is enough.
Provided it's got HDMI, you should be fairly future proofed - well, at least until you want to replace it anyway.
Posted by :Will Head | November 29, 2006 4:58 PM