Portable Potential
Blu Ray is slowly popularizing itself in the home entertainment market today and could very soon become mainstream (most people are just waiting for the price tag to go down).
In anticipation of suck a day Panasonic has released the first portable Blu Ray player, the Panasonic DMP-B15. At $800 the player matches the pricing of the disks, but I guess that’s to be expected. If you’re investing in Blu Ray already odds are your desperate for portability. With an 8.9 inch LCD display the size of the device is nothing to sneer at, but Blu Ray is all about picture to begin with. The player comes packaged with its own remote.
I know I don’t have the cash to invest in any Blu Ray at the moment, but that doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate the picture quality and technological progression. Just like DVD’s, one day the prices will come down.
Two for One
Infinity Storage Media has unveiled the first DVD Blu Ray hybrid disk.
The disk is single sided but provides both DVD and Blu Ray data (basically the disk can play in both a Blu Ray player and as a standard DVD). This is especially convenient since most of us already own DVD players and I don’t know that I’m ready to give mine up. Lets be honest some of us are waiting for Blu Ray prices to drop before we invest, but wouldn’t it be nice to build up a library in advance? More importantly it makes traveling easier since, even if you already own a Blu Ray player, Blu Ray does not yet have a portable device like DVDs nor do laptops support Blu Ray disks (but they do support DVDs).
Infinity it the first company to actually bring such an idea into production, and it certainly can’t hurt home movie popularity.
