Friday, March 26, 2004
Sony Announces 50GB Blu-Ray Video Deck
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "NEWS" @ 03:00 PM
"Sony has committed itself to shipping second-generation consumer-oriented Blu-Ray video recorders by the end of the year, the company said today. The new systems will support single-side, dual-layer Blu-Ray rewriteable discs with a total capacity of 50GB. Current Blu-Ray rewriteable discs provide 23GB of storage on a single layer. The second-generation machines will also support the so-called 'BD-ROM' format - the Blu-Ray equivalent of today's pre-recorded DVDs, Sony said."
The electronics giant touted, last year, their 23GB disks which had data transfer speed of 11MBps - more if data compression is turned on. The 12cm Professional Disc for Data (PDD) discs are fitted inside airtight protective cartridges and are available in rewriteable and write-once versions. The drives connect to the system over an ultrawide 160 SCSI interface. The 50GB drives, part of their blue laser technology push, that have been just announced have a 22MBps transfer rate. Sony plans to futher double capacity and performance in their 3rd generation drives and disks.
The electronics giant touted, last year, their 23GB disks which had data transfer speed of 11MBps - more if data compression is turned on. The 12cm Professional Disc for Data (PDD) discs are fitted inside airtight protective cartridges and are available in rewriteable and write-once versions. The drives connect to the system over an ultrawide 160 SCSI interface. The 50GB drives, part of their blue laser technology push, that have been just announced have a 22MBps transfer rate. Sony plans to futher double capacity and performance in their 3rd generation drives and disks.
