Development of World’s Highest Capacity Tape Media with Over 50 TB Capacity Per Tape Cartridge
Hitachi Maxell and Tokyo Institute of Technology has jointly developed an ultra high capacity tape media with an ultra thin nano-structure magnatic film through use of facing targets sputtering method, allowing a tape cartridge to store over 50 TB of data (an areal recording density of 69.8Mb/mm2), which is 33 times larger than a capacity of the latest LTO Ultrium 5 data. The large capacity tape was made by low-noise laminated soft magnetic underlayers and the magnetic recording film with less than 10nm diameter crystal grains. The nano structured perpendicular magnetic recording film was successfully formed on a 4.5fEm-thick based film through facing targets sputtering method, which was invented by Tokyo Institute of Technology at room temperature without using substrate cooling system. Furthermore, a linear recording density of 531 kbpi and a track pitch of 300 nm without cross-track interference were confirmed by a specially designed tester. Read more
Introduction of new AQUOS DX Series by Sharp
In an ever competitive flat TV market where the manufacturers are reaching for the next value added feature to stay ahead of the pack, Sharp announced the second edition to its AQUOS DX series LCD TV. The new AQUOS is equipped with built-in Blu-ray Disc recorder. Sharp will introduce 13 new models with in this series with sizes ranging from 26V to 52V. The new second addition will feature more advance functionality such as improved recording function with 7X extended HD video recording capable of extended recording time while retaining the same full-HD quality as the original high definition broadcast. Read more
Development of world’s first Professional 3D Production System by Panasonic
With ever increasing acceptance of consumer market in 3D contents and with movie production studios such as Hollywood moving towards creation of more 3D entertainment content it is becoming increasingly important to create a more efficient 3D production process and environment. Currently, 3D content producers have to hand-build their own 3D production systems by physically connecting multiple 2D production devices resulting in a great deal of time and effort in producing a 3D movie. In order to address this future issue Panasonic announced it will start developing a professional 3D Full HD production system. Read more
Two new Blu-ray recorders by Sony with networking capability
Two new Blu-ray recorders by Sony with networking capability
The two new Blu-ray recorders from Sony are not your average Blu-ray recorder. The BDZ-A750 (320GB) and the BDZ-A950 (500GB) come with networking capable features. The new recorders are capable of exporting their recorded programs both from the terrestrial digital/analog, BS digital and 110° CS digital broadcast as well as the content from the Tsutaya TV and acTVila VOD services which are available in Japan to a Sony’s portable music player “Walkman” and portable game console “PlayStation Portable (PSP),” etc via USB. Read more
The way to increase demands for next generation optical discs
Like any other products in our digital age in order to insure their market acceptability and increase their consumer demands their price tags must be lowered as one of the major attributes. Next generation optical discs like Blu-ray are no exception in this assumption. Demand for Blu-ray and other next generation optical discs started to grow since 2007 in reaching 20 million units in sale by 2008. The growth will exceed 60 million units in 2009 and an estimated 250 million by 2011 according to research report by Panasonic. As of 2008 Japan accounted for 80% of global sale for next generation optical discs such as Blu-ray with overseas demand is expected to reach about the same level sometimes by 2011 according to the same research studies. Read more
1DIN Blu-ray Disc player for automobile by Mitsubishi
Mitsubishi electric unveiled the 1DIN a small size blu-ray player for automobiles. Well, this is an obvious choice as Blu-ray find itself as industry standard. The 1DIN player is only one third of the home size BD player. Mitsubishi managed to reduce the size of the player by increasing the board density by as much as 1.5 times and reducing the thickness of its mechanical parts. Read more
Development of 450mW Blue Violet Laser Diode by Sanyo
It hasn’t been long that the whole world decided to go Blu-ray and manufacturers of consumer electronics already has a long list of improvement in their product development roadmap. Sanyo Electric Co Ltd is no exception by making its announcement on development of blue violet laser diode which comes with a pulse oscillation output power of 450mW. Read more
DENON super high-end universal Blu-ray Disc player
DENON today through its consumer marketing department announced the one and only in the world universal Blu-ray disc player “DVD-A1UD”. DVD-A1UD is capable of playing Blu-ray discs, Super Audio CD (SACD), DVD-Audio and DVD-Video. According to DENON it is the world first high end universal player that can play Blu-ray discs, SACD, DVD-Audio and DVD-Video. “DVD-A1UD” comes with the most recent version of DENON LINK 4th technology providing a high speed and high grade digital transmission. Read more
