Ritek puts both Blu-ray and HD-DVD burning on one disk
CES 2008 Lots of flip and burn goodness
RITEK HAD one of the coolest things on show at CES, a hybrid BD-R and HD-DVD-R. That was the best, but by no means the only innovative thing it was showing off.
The disc is a burnable Blu-Ray on one side and a burnable HD-DVD on the other. If you are making high def content and want to avoid the format wars, this is a good way to distribute media. They are not out yet, but will be in the not so distant future.
Ritek also has 2x speed dual layer HD-DVD discs out now, and around late Q1 or early Q2 should have HD-DVD-RW dual layer discs in mass production. They were showing them off at CES, but are not ready for production.
Another cool one they had was a HD-DVD-R and DVD-R-DL combo disc. This one is immensely useful for distribution of video content, you don't have to worry which format the user has, just give them high- and low-def on the same little slice of Lexan.
Ritek also has BD-Rs up to 4x speeds and HD-DVD-Rs up to 2x now, so if you want speed, this outfit can supply the media. As you can see, if you want exotic formats, they can supply them too, no need to take sides in the format war, just do both. µ
Comments
I don't see the attraction
Flash memory is abound,16GB sticks are easy to find. 32GB and higher won't be far away and then... it'll all be flash. So why invest in burning equipment and disks when the disk is just about dead.
It only takes about 3 hours to download a gig demo from the Playstation store.
If I could download my games and then back them up to another hard disk... I'd never buy a Blu-Ray Disk.
As it is, with the purchase of the PS3 I was able tog et 5 free Blu-Ray disks, but... it was easier to just keep on feeding the torrents to the PC than to bother with rebates and forms.
I hope these companies get it. I'd really like to see flash embedded everywhere and not need plastic coasters anymore. High speed USB transfer is far better than burning. We can avoid the entire format war all together. All that needs to happen is for media players to have a USB slot, which I imagine some already do.
Screw DVD's in all their variety.
What a pity for Ritek
Good Idea.Pity for Ritek that HD-DVD is all but dead already!
Shame
It's a shame the "Format War" is over... Well a shame for Ritek anyhowGiven that we're talking about Ritek...
... in a good number of batches only one side will work well.Great Job, Ritek!
Too bad that a disk has only two sides! You can't burn DVD, HD-DVD and Blue-ray on one disk...When is Ritek going to deal with this issue?