The BDA also noted that a consumer version of the BDXL spec is slated for markets where Blu-ray recorders have achieved “broad consumer acceptance,†but clarification on this point was not provided at press time....
Though the BDA did not specify when the new formats are being to market, it was cautioned that both BDXL and IH-BD will require new players and recorders.
How convenient. They're releasing something targeted at a population that has already widely accepted Blu-Ray and has existing drives, but oh, by the way, these are incompatible formats.
This is why BR shouldn't have won the format war. The fucking spec STILL ISN'T FINISHED.
I'm betting Avatar's release on blu-ray is going to be the shot in the arm that the format has been waiting for. I bet they sell a boat load of players later this month.
Get over your outrage! Early DVD burners cannot access double layer writable-DVDs. Early CD drives cannot access beyond 650MB (vs 'full' 700MB). Is this any worse than early entertainment devices using an earlier version of HDMI?
Anyway, these features do not seem useful to casual home users. The medical industry might not have switched to Blu-ray for archiving/backup yet, as THIS spec is for them, so they are not getting left behind any more than you.
IH-BD sounds very neat. I don't think I've ever heard of anything like that: half ROM, half RE. It sounds useful for operating system backups. Imagine if Windows 7 was shipped on IH-BD, and all Windows XP had IH drives. Instead of telling the user to backup somewhere else, all vital settings and such in the user folder could be burned to BD, then the upgrade is installed, and all personal things are automatically returned.
Certainly, a terabyte of movies and music must get saved somewhere else, but all user settings, browser configs, and the like will fit.
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How convenient. They're releasing something targeted at a population that has already widely accepted Blu-Ray and has existing drives, but oh, by the way, these are incompatible formats.
This is why BR shouldn't have won the format war. The fucking spec STILL ISN'T FINISHED.
I'm betting Avatar's release on blu-ray is going to be the shot in the arm that the format has been waiting for. I bet they sell a boat load of players later this month.
Still, it sucks.
Anyway, these features do not seem useful to casual home users. The medical industry might not have switched to Blu-ray for archiving/backup yet, as THIS spec is for them, so they are not getting left behind any more than you.
IH-BD sounds very neat. I don't think I've ever heard of anything like that: half ROM, half RE. It sounds useful for operating system backups. Imagine if Windows 7 was shipped on IH-BD, and all Windows XP had IH drives. Instead of telling the user to backup somewhere else, all vital settings and such in the user folder could be burned to BD, then the upgrade is installed, and all personal things are automatically returned.
Certainly, a terabyte of movies and music must get saved somewhere else, but all user settings, browser configs, and the like will fit.