2006-08-16

I'm glad I sold my Sony stock...

I saw this article on John Dvorak's Blog. You can see feeds from his blog, and several others I follow, in my sidebar, below my pictures.


First Blu-ray disc drive won’t play Blu-ray movies

The first Blu-ray (BD) disc drive for desktop PCs is here, but be warned -- it won't play commercial BD movies.


Sony officially announced its BWU-100A product at its "Experience More 2006" event in Sydney yesterday, all the while acknowledging that there's significant room for improvement before the product is viable for integration into media centre PCs.


Vincent Bautista, Sony's product manager for data storage, told CNET.com.au that due to copy protection issues and lagging software development, the drive will only play user-recorded high-definition content from a digital camcorder, and not commercial movies released under the BD format.

1 comment:

Jon Clarke said...

First the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray war and now this.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: DVD is here to stay.