"[a] ...50GB Blu-ray disc is capable of holding slightly more than 4 hours of HDTV whenever one records over-the-air MPEG2 stream, but transcoding this stream to MPEG4 AVC makes it possible to cram in up to 16 hours of HDTV onto the same disc. "It will probably also raise prices since the new recordable HD drives are more expensive than regular DVD recordable drives. I guess it's great that Sony is very forward thinking, but here in the U.S. many people are still using regular DVDs and haven't made the transition to HD discs. But what about support for HD-DVD? Looks like the battle between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray is heating up.
Sony Dropping DVD from DVRs
September 16th, 2007 No Comments
Sony said that it is dropping support from regular DVDs from its DVRs and only supporting its Blu-Ray format. This is for their upcoming DVR lines in Japan.
Dropping support for DVDs means that consumers will have to upgrade and buy the new Blu-Ray discs if they want to archive shows that they've recorded. Now that's great news for those looking to store more movies in each disc and good news for the growing number of HDTV users. But it's bad news for people still clinging to their DVD collections.
Coolest Gadgets says that support Blu-Ray offers much more storage:
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