Remember how Sony's Blue-Ray defeated Toshiba's HD-DVD ? Well, it wasn't quite like that, Toshiba just droped out it's own format for Sony: http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/hddvd/ & http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1715131,00.html The "fuel" run out with Warner saying that it'll support Blue-Ray instead of HD-DVD.
Now the problem is with Microsoft Xbox's, which uses HD-DVD, where they'll certanly change for Blue-Ray, or not... There's still the HD movie downloads, with both Apple Tv an Xbox. But the real winner [1] is Java ME, "At the 2005 JavaOne trade show, it was announced that Sun Microsystems' Java cross-platform software environment would be included in all Blu-ray Disc players as a mandatory part of the standard", they call it BD-J : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BD-J & http://java.sun.com/developer/media/deepdivebluray.jsp This reminds me the "Java ME is dead. Long live Java ME", from Barbara Ballard: http://www.littlespringsdesign.com/blog/2008/02/18/java-me-is-dead-long-live-java-me/ The thing, tough, is the Java ME implementation that everyone does, where some don't follow standards, but that's for another time. [1] - http://blogs.sun.com/hinkmond/entry/wahhh_microsoft_crying_like_a1 Reference: Maximum capacity, with dual layer: - Blue-Ray: 60GB - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc - HD-DVD: 50GB - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_DVD //VD _______________________________________________ tce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.paradigma.pt/mailman/listinfo/tce
