Plextor and Blu-Ray? - Club CDFreaks

Nocturnal · 30-08-2005

What does Plextor have up its sleeve in regards to BR?

Anything special? Any announcements coming soon? Any idea if they're supporting both formats or just one?

**hwp** · 30-08-2005

No direct news are available afaik. But Plextor has a long standing use of Sanyo chips in its optical drives. So I guess it's a safe bet to look at developments at Sanyo for future Plextor products. Look here:

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/11951
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/12250

My iterpretation: We might see a HD-DVD Drive from Plextor relatively soon and maybe a HD/BR-combo drive later.

*Kenshin* · 30-08-2005

It's too risky for small companies like Plextor to produce a Blu-ray drive anytime soon. Plextor will decide whether they want to release one or not after others will have pioneered the mass market because only then there will be at least some thousands of prospective consumers for Plextor-designed drives.

*alexnoe* · 30-08-2005

And no one wants Plextor to release another drive before it's ready, right?

Bar81 · 30-08-2005

Well, maybe its asking too much but it would be nice if Plextor actually released a good premium DVD+RW DL drive at some point this year and it didn't suck anus. SATA interface also as an option.

As to BR and HD-DVD, with media costs its not going to be a big market for quite some time. DL media is still absurdly expensive and burns on the second layer are universally horrible quality compared to the SL discs and the first layer on those same DL discs.

*agomes* · 01-09-2005

It would be nice also to see Plextor incorporating DVD-RAM in future drives, as they already sell (sold?) one in the fareast - the PX 605A.
Why shall they limit european drives to dual format when they already have SuperMulti drives selling in Japan?

BR and HD-DVD is another kind of story (or shall we say war?), and either they come to the market with dual writting facilities or we have to wait and see the outome of this querel, discs will be too expensive and I think no one desires to end up with a dead duck in the arms....

*alexnoe* · 01-09-2005

Considering that the movie mafia tries to force you to buy a new monitor just to watch movies (they call this nonsense DRM), they better don't release a dual format drive and let both formats die

30-08-2005	#1 (permalink)
Nocturnal CD Freaks Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Honolulu, HI Posts: 69	Plextor and Blu-Ray? <a href='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a13febf7&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE' target='_blank'><img src='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=30&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE&n=a13febf7' border='0' alt='' /></a> What does Plextor have up its sleeve in regards to BR? Anything special? Any announcements coming soon? Any idea if they're supporting both formats or just one?

30-08-2005	#2 (permalink)
hwp Moderator Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 2,020	Re: Plextor and Blu-Ray? No direct news are available afaik. But Plextor has a long standing use of Sanyo chips in its optical drives. So I guess it's a safe bet to look at developments at Sanyo for future Plextor products. Look here: http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/11951 http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/12250 My iterpretation: We might see a HD-DVD Drive from Plextor relatively soon and maybe a HD/BR-combo drive later.

30-08-2005	#3 (permalink)
Kenshin CDFreaks Resident Join Date: May 2002 Location: Near Seoul, South Korea Posts: 12,367	Re: Plextor and Blu-Ray? It's too risky for small companies like Plextor to produce a Blu-ray drive anytime soon. Plextor will decide whether they want to release one or not after others will have pioneered the mass market because only then there will be at least some thousands of prospective consumers for Plextor-designed drives. __________________ Kill Confucius

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01-09-2005	#6 (permalink)
agomes CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 1,020	Re: Plextor and Blu-Ray? It would be nice also to see Plextor incorporating DVD-RAM in future drives, as they already sell (sold?) one in the fareast - the PX 605A. Why shall they limit european drives to dual format when they already have SuperMulti drives selling in Japan? BR and HD-DVD is another kind of story (or shall we say war?), and either they come to the market with dual writting facilities or we have to wait and see the outome of this querel, discs will be too expensive and I think no one desires to end up with a dead duck in the arms....

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alexnoe CDFreaks Resident Join Date: May 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 4,613	Re: Plextor and Blu-Ray? Considering that the movie mafia tries to force you to buy a new monitor just to watch movies (they call this nonsense DRM), they better don't release a dual format drive and let both formats die __________________ Asus P4C800E-Deluxe, Win XP, P4/2800 HT, 2048 MB RAM, 600 GB HDD, Plextor PX712/716/755/Premium, LG 4120B, Pioneer A08, Pioneer A09, NEC ND-3540A/4550A ------------------------------------------------ If at first you don't succeed, redefine success! How a troll wants to force users of Linux to buy Windows just to make use of Plextor DVD writer unique functions ------------------------------------------------ PxScan/PxView (compatible to Premium, PX-712, PX-714, PX-716), now with built-in picture file output Bitsetting via Autostart My Blog about DADVSI (new french copyright)

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