Pioneer, Sharp Introduce Blu-Ray Players

Date: Thursday, October 07, 2004

Ceatec continues to be the latest place to find out what's going on within the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray camps as prototype hardware is unveiled. Talking about one of the PC drives being displayed in regards to the formats it can handle, "Formats supported by the drive include read-only BD-ROM discs, write-once BD-R discs, and dual-layer rewritable BD-RW discs, all at 2x speed, and a host of DVD formats. These include DVD-ROM at 12x, read-only support for DVD-RAM at 2x, DVD+/-R at 8x, DVD+/-RW at 4x, DVD-R dual layer at 2x, and DVD+R dual layer at 2.4x."