DavoNogo Posted September 4, 2005 Posted September 4, 2005 http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Detai...px?NewsId=14870 The NEC HD DVD Multireader HR-1100A is the first drive that is capable of reading the HD-DVD format. HD DVD media are read at 2x speed. DVD minus and DVD plus media can be read at up to 8x DVD speed, as well as rewritable and dual-layer DVDs. It can also read DVD-RAMs at 5x speed. Finally, the HD-DVD Multireader delivers a convincing 32x CD speed as CD-ROM drive. The new HD DVD standard enables a storage capacity of up to 64 GB – which is over 13 times greater than that of a conventional DVD – as well as 16 hours of recording and playback in HD quality. HD-DVD – greater storage capacity for films, High Definition TV and data The HD-DVD is comparable to the DVD. The difference is that blue instead of red laser light is used. The advantage of using blue laser light is that it has considerably shorter wavelengths. This light is much easier to concentrate via optical lenses, which means that the data can be written to the disk at a far higher density. As a result, much more data can be stored on a HD-DVD medium. An HD-DVD can store 15 GB per layer. A double-sided HD-DVD can store up to 60 GB on two layers. The rewritable HD DVD-RWs offer 20 GB (single-layer) or 32 GB (dual-layer) storage capacity, which means up to 64 GB on double-sided media. The HD DVD is capable of storing large-format, high-resolution cinema films, despite the vast amount of data involved, on media the size of DVDs or CDs. Leading entertainment industry enterprises have announced that they plan to market films on HD DVD. Almost 100 films have now been selected for HD DVD format, such as 'Batman Begins,', 'Million Dollar Baby', 'Alexander', 'Ocean's Twelve' and 'The Bourne Supremacy'. Classic movies such as '12 Monkeys', 'Forrest Gump' and 'Harry Potter' are also among the chosen films. and so on, and so forth..
zorg1503559539 Posted September 6, 2005 Posted September 6, 2005 nice, but I thought the announcement was delayed or only for stand alone players not PC drives?
DavoNogo Posted September 7, 2005 Author Posted September 7, 2005 Well the delay that you speak of was announced after NEC announced this product, so it's possible this product will be delayed also, but don't quote me on that. I just noticed it says this at the bottom of that site: The HR-1100A will be available in the market in January 2006, at a price tag of 500 Euros. At the current exchange rate, that equates to $812.996AUD, which will still no doubt be cheaper than a stand alone player (my guess is that they'll be over 1000 bucks), but bloody expensive for a PC device. DVD burners were never that expensive, were they? (it's been too long to remember). All I remember is that over 10 years ago, I paid over 300 bucks for a 4x CD-ROM drive, and that was a huge thing back then
Santa1503559644 Posted September 8, 2005 Posted September 8, 2005 Well the delay that you speak of was announced after NEC announced this product, so it's possible this product will be delayed also, but don't quote me on that.I just noticed it says this at the bottom of that site: At the current exchange rate, that equates to $812.996AUD, which will still no doubt be cheaper than a stand alone player (my guess is that they'll be over 1000 bucks), but bloody expensive for a PC device. DVD burners were never that expensive, were they? (it's been too long to remember). All I remember is that over 10 years ago, I paid over 300 bucks for a 4x CD-ROM drive, and that was a huge thing back then <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The early DVD-burners were in the thousands ... at the start, of course, before the usual collapse in prices.
DavoNogo Posted September 8, 2005 Author Posted September 8, 2005 odd how I don't remember them being that pricey either way, I'm definately waiting for the prices to fall
Samhain Posted September 8, 2005 Posted September 8, 2005 odd how I don't remember them being that pricey either way, I'm definately waiting for the prices to fall <{POST_SNAPBACK}> the first CDRs were 1500.. I remember well :-)
mrplou Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 My friend paid $10k for a cd burner many years ago. He used it to record video footage of stomach tumours.
DavoNogo Posted September 9, 2005 Author Posted September 9, 2005 10k? you sure that wasn't a pressing machine?
Tweet Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 "My friend paid $10k for a cd burner many years ago. He used it to record video footage of stomach tumours." Heavens ! that's enough to give anyone a tremor. C.M
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