It’s nothing short of amazing how James Cameron’ s Avatar helped the cause of Blu-ray 3D. We half kid, of course. But James Cameron’s now ubiquitous 3D flick — though failing to capture 2009′s Oscar award for best picture — did open up the eyes of consumers (pun intended) to the wonders of watching in
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If you’ve already jumped to Microsoft’s “the OS Vista was supposed to be” — aka Windows 7 — then you will be happy to know that our friends from Redmond have incorporated native Blu-Ray features into their newest operating system. We’re gonna give you the lowdown on using Blu-Ray technology for Windows 7.
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And more good news at the start of 2010 for you Blu-ray addicts. Panasonic and Sony are working on upcoming technology that will increase the data capacity per layer of blank Blu-ray discs, currently at 25GBs, to 33.4GBs. Found this via Electronista.com:
Panasonic and Sony on Friday were revealed to have made a technology that could
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Sharp has announced that it’s now capable of building a blue-violet laser that’s capable of writing triple and quadruple-layer Blu-ray (BD) discs at up to 8x. This would probably make a case for those people who want to back-up exclusively to Blu-Ray discs. As of the moment, people are still hampered by the 25GB and 50GB limits of Blu-Ray. With this new development, will we be seeing higher data quantities on BD-Rs and BD-REs? Read more from MacPCWiz.