Sony has begun shipping its 25GB single layer Blu-ray Disc recording media in America. In addition, the company announced that it will be launching a dual layer 50GB capacity disc is set to debut in June. “Sony knows Blu-ray technology like no other company,” said Mike Lucas, director of marketing for Sony Electronics’ Media and Application Solutions Division, which is handy as it developed the technology. Sony’s Blu-ray media also supports a 2x recording speed, which provides a high data transfer rate of up to 72 Mbps, making it ideal for high-definition video recording and data storage applications.
In addition to media, Sony will soon offer a wide range of Blu-ray Disc devices, including a Blu-ray Disc player, VAIO desktop and notebook computers, and an internal Blu-ray Disc drive. The BD-R (write-once) 25GB and BD-RE (rewritable) 25GB recording media have suggested retail prices of $20 and $25, respectively. The soon to come BD-R 50GB and BD-RE 50GB recording media will have suggested retail prices of $48 and $60, respectively. On the other hand, Sony delayed the shipment of first high resolution movies on Blu-ray discs. The company had originally planned to ship eight movie titles on May 23 and seven more on June 13. Now the initial eight titles will ship on June 20 while a new launch date for the latter seven has not been decided. Now we need to wait only few months or years till the prices become affordable also for normal customers. The idea of burning half of my drive on one disc is pretty cool… |
