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SONY FILMS TO USE OLD TECHNOLOGY FOR HI-DEF DVD'S Thursday, December 1 2005 Online techies were expressing surprise Wednesday at Sony's announcement that it will release its first movies on high-definition Blu-ray DVDs using the 11-year-old MPEG-2 system. Commented Nick Farrell of Britain's The Inquirer: "MPEG-2 was the codec which Noah used in the ark to watch old episodes of William Hartnell's Dr. Who during those long 40 days and 40 nights of rain." A writer for News.com observed, "By using either AVC or VC-1 [two other formats (more) NEW STORAGE SYSTEM MAY MAKE ALL DVD'S OBSOLETE Monday, November 28 2005 Threatening to make both competing high-definition DVD systems, Blu-Ray and HD DVD, quickly obsolete, a holographic storage system that can store up to 300GB on a single disc is expected to hit the market by this time next year, Britain's New Scientist magazine is reporting in its current issue. The magazine noted that the technology behind it could eventually be developed to store up to 1.6 terabytes on a disk, the equivalent of 300 DVDs. (more) |
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on Tuesday announced the first 20 titles that it will release in high definition for its Blu-ray Disc system. They will be released as soon as the first Blu-ray players hit the market in the spring. Among the titles are The Fifth Element, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Desperado, For a Few Dollars More, The Guns of Navarone, Hitch, House of Flying Daggers, A Knight's Tale, Kung Fu Hustle, The Last Waltz, Legends of the Fall, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Robocop, Sense and Sensibility, Stealth, Species, SWAT and XXX. The company also said that, in the future, it plans to release high-definition versions of all movies being put out on conventional DVD. Meanwhile, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment said today that it, too, plans to release 20 films in the Blu-ray format this spring. The films, it said, will include Fantastic Four, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Behind Enemy Lines, Kiss of the Drago and Ice Age. In a statement company president Mike Dunn said, "The release of our films on Blu-ray will provide consumers with in-home entertainment beyond anything they have imagined."
