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BDA Announces Additional Format Enhancements

Posted April 3, 2010 04:54 PM by Juan Calonge

Blu-ray DiscThe Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) today announced two new media specifications that use Blu-ray Disc technology to provide targeted functionality for commercial and consumer applications. The specifications for BDXL™ (High Capacity Recordable and Rewritable discs) and IH-BD (Intra-Hybrid discs) are expected in the next few months.

The BDXL specification, which is targeted primarily at commercial segments such as broadcasting, medical and document imaging enterprises with significant archiving needs, will provide customers with write-once options on 100GB and 128GB capacity discs and rewritable capability on 100GB discs. The discs reach these capacities by incorporating three to four recordable layers. A consumer version of BDXL is also expected, particularly in those regions where BD recorders have achieved broad consumer acceptance.

"Professional industries have expressed a desire to find optical disc solutions that enable them to transition away from magnetic media for their archiving needs," said Victor Matsuda, Blu-ray Disc Association Global Promotions Committee chair. "Leveraging Blu-ray Disc to meet this need provides professional enterprises with a compact, stable and long term solution for archiving large amounts of sensitive data, video and graphic images using a proven and widely accepted optical technology."

The Intra-Hybrid Blu-ray Disc (IH-BD) incorporates a single BD-ROM layer and a single BD-RE layer so as to enable the user to view, but not overwrite, critical published data while providing the flexibility to include relevant personal data on the same physical disc. This allows for consumer specific applications where combining published content with related user data on a convenient, single volume is desirable. Both the ROM and the RE layers on IH-BD discs provide 25GB of capacity.

Because both BDXL and IH-BD are specially designed formats with specific market segments in mind, newly-designed hardware is required to play back or record BDXL or IH-BD media. However, because the new media specifications are extensions of current Blu-ray Disc technology, future BDXL and IH-BD devices can be designed to support existing 25GB and 50GB Blu-ray Discs.


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BLURAYSONYES
  Apr 03, 2010
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Perfect for an Avatar Blu Ray copy at its best Id say!
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alphadec
  Apr 03, 2010
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sounds great to me more space is what we want.
digitalbabe
  Apr 03, 2010
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Shocker, and yet ANOTHER player is required, LOL.
Stoyanov
  Apr 03, 2010
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New TV, new receiver, new player again.
maverik1979
  Apr 03, 2010
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no not new equipment for consumers, this is for industry only
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poland626
  Apr 03, 2010
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No @maverik1979, you need a new player. the new discs have more layers and the lasers on the players out now aren't powerful enough.
X400
  Apr 03, 2010
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it'd be great if movies were released on these larger discs, but im sure warner would still find a way to ruin things
Jimmy Smith
  Apr 03, 2010
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This is for rewrite format only

THERE WILL NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER BE USED FOR RETAIL MOVIES

Its not going to happen.

1. A BD-50 is enough capacity for any movie under 4.5 hours anyway 2D, 3 hours 3D.

2. Studios frequently use more discs then they have to because discs are cheap and more discs means more percieved value.

3. All current players are designed for reading discs with a maximum capacity of 50 gigs. Why would the studios create new incompatible format just for capacity is never needed anyway.
threefiftyrocket
  Apr 03, 2010
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I think its cool... I love hearing stuff like this. I'm still wanting to see a holographic video disc in action... woooo hooooo... but anyway, way to go BDA, more cool stuff making me realize why that other media died a couple years ago
vveksuvarna
  Apr 03, 2010
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bring on the gigs !

this proves the mass acceptance of bluray, hope the naysayers and supporters of digital downloads recognise the importance of this move.

if the 100 gig discs do well in the commercial market, im confident it will seep its way into home media.

2160p tvs are already in the market, higher resolution, higher bitrates, not to forget 3d needs two streams of full high bitrate 1080p
Blu-Jawa
  Apr 03, 2010
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Other than an HD-DVR there is no other way 4 me to record HDTV Programs I may want to view over and over again. why is it only in "Japan" can I get a "Set-top" box that records to BD-RW Blank Discs!! It's just not fair. The US should have "Set-top Recorders" by now. >:|
JediFonger
  Apr 04, 2010
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next step: lossless 16-bit color depth 4k 3-D video and 48-bit 384kHz 22.22 lossless audio.
HDIsMyDomain
  Apr 04, 2010
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I don't care. I'll be happy actually. If this actually happens then Blurays will go down in price more. I'm not getting rid of my bluray player yet. I just bought it and think the picture looks fine, as long as it has the movie I want on it then I'm happy. I'm not going to upgrade for stupid stuff like this, I reaaaaally don't care how many gigs are on the disc.
kris achar
  Apr 04, 2010
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That is the reason,i have not changed to HDTV & blu ray player yet.I think i can move on to the newest 3D HDtv & Maching 3D Blu ray player which is capable of the above discussed format.
And iam surprised that this new technology is seeing so many changes so fast..?

I have read a proverb,good things comes to those who wait....(Smiling) !

love,
kris.
Jimmy Smith
  Apr 04, 2010
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Oh for the love of God. These discs are not for 4k video. Any 4k video disc would effectively be a new format since Blu-Ray can't support the high bit-rates (and or new codecs) or the high capacity discs that such video would require. 4k will eventually be out but it won't be Blu-Ray.
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fdm
  Apr 04, 2010
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As for any recordable disc media, the question becomes what is it's shelf life. How long after data is recorded on them will the data stick around? What does "stable and long term solution" in reality actually mean? (Recall they said the same thing about CD-Rs and DVD-Rs, but we all should know by now that that's mostly just a crap shoot.)
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alphadec
  Apr 04, 2010
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kris achar: if u wait long enough maybe u will get hologram films.....
Polyh3dron
  Apr 05, 2010
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Jimmy Smith: Do you realize how big of a screen would be required to see the benefit of a 4K image?
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Musashi
  Apr 05, 2010
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When are the 33GB per layer discs coming?
Mr. Joshua
  Apr 05, 2010
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How about a disc that holds the movie, the extras and no frigging digital copy or DVD copy of the movie. I want HD not SD....
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skywirepteltd
  Apr 05, 2010
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http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/bluray_disk_specification_now_officially_allows_128gb_capacities

50GB Blu-ray disks aren't exactly what I'd call "cramped", but just in case you thought the existing spec was getting a bit long in the tooth the Blu-ray association has released a new standard today that will bump capacities up to 128GB (write-once) or 100GB (rewritable). The new format which will be called BDXL sounds promising, but unfortunately won't be backwards compatible with older hardware. I suspect this little caveat will hamper its adoption pretty heavily, but is great to see that optical storage isn't dead yet.

Video applications for BDXL aren't exactly clear at this point, but it's unlikely the 3D craze that's sweeping the media industry is to blame. Existing disk capacities seem to be holding up quite well, so it's likely this will be phased in slowly over time without the vast majority of users even noticing. The new disk technology goes three to four layers deep on the disk, and a more powerful laser requirement is the reason you'll need to upgrade to get it.

BDXL is also expected to be phased into PC consumer grade optical drives over time, but I suspect flash drives will continue to suck the wind out of adoption for this as a backup medium.
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bluskiff
  Apr 06, 2010
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when are they coming out with bluray audio? I wanna hear led zepp in 24/192. Itunes sounds like shit. cds are only 16 bit I wanna hear real master quality 24 bit 192 audio.

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