A peek inside a Blu-Ray factory

Tue, Jul 28, 2009

CrystalsEver wondered how those mighty fine BDs are made? Yeah, so have I. Now thanks to News Corp Australia’s Charlie Brewer you get to have a sneak peak inside a factory through a 16 slide photo gallery. From the polycarbonate crystals to the disk packing it’s all there, so head on over to the Inside Sony’s Blu-Ray Factory gallery and satisfy your craving for knowledge for today.

Discs[Via News.com.au]

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Toshiba eats humble pie – releases BD player

Sun, Jul 19, 2009

blu_ray_logoToshiba, one of the main backers of HD-DVD has joined the Blu-Ray fold with the rumoured release of it’s first Blu-Ray player (and recorder for its home market). Having been thoroughly beaten in the format war (how much good that’s done the BDA is unknown at this point) Toshiba wisely cut it’s losses, pulled out of the HD-DVD format and 18 months later has gone one stage further and will actually be bringing Blu-Ray player to market. Ouch that smarts.

[Via Engadget & TechRadar (and machine translation)]

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