Philips Shows TripleWriter Blu-ray/DVD/CD Writer
January 27, 2006
Park City, UT - At the Sundance Film Festival this week, film industry executives and dozens of celebrities received a glimpse at the future of storage and playback technology for high-definition video content through demonstrations of Blu-ray Disc media in Philips' Simplicity Lounge. Its third year at the festival, Philips created the Simplicity Lounge in order to showcase current and future technology to industry VIPs and media, with an emphasis on products that enhance the viewing experience of TV and movie content for consumers.
Philips New TripleWriter PC Drive
The new Philips TripleWriter (SPD7000) showcases Philips' ability to integrate PC products and technologies into the consumer electronics realm. The drive features recording and playback capabilities of all popular optical storage formats including CD, DVD and Blu-ray Disc, which allows users to select their media of choice depending on the preferred application.
Philips' TripleWriter features a 2x (72 Mb/s continuous data-rate) read and write speed on BD-ROM, BD-R and BD-RE media. The drive reads and writes a variety of legacy media including CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD+RW and DVD-RW. Additionally, Philips will launch four types of discs (BD-R and BD-RE, single layer 25 GB and dual layer BD-R and BD-RE 50 GB) together with the introduction of the TripleWriter. The TripleWriter can be built into any PCD featuring S-ATA interface.
Philips says that Blu-ray Disc is the most advanced optical storage standard that satisfies next-generation requirements in terms of storage capacity, data speeds, copy protection, interactivity, convenience and cost. Blu-ray Disc technology is based on blue lasers, rather than the red laser used with CDs and DVDs. This allows for a much sharper laser focus, smaller pits on the disc and a huge increase in storage capacity.
Philips also introduced four robust disc types: 25 and 50 GB versions of BD-R and BD-RE.
The company adds that Blu-ray Disc has the support and technological innovation behind it to be the industry leader and is supported by more than 160 of the world's largest gaming manufacturers, movie studios, consumer electronics and PC manufacturers. Philips says that the new technology provides consumers with the highest quality level of HD content, not matched by any other HD video source.
"This film festival is the ideal place for us to showcase our new Blu-ray technology," said Marty Gordon, vice president, Philips Electronics office in Hollywood. "Filmmakers, actors and other members of the entertainment industry have been in our lounge all week and have been amazed by the picture quality Blu-ray Disc offers and are looking forward to consumers having the ability to enjoy quality HD content in their homes."
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month, the company introduced a Blu-ray Disc consumer electronic player (BDP9000), an all-in-one PC Writer (TripleWriter) and new Blu-ray media (BD-R and B-RE, single layer 25 GB(1) and dual layer BD-R and BD-RE 50 GB). Both the BDP9000 consumer player and the TripleWriter (SPD7000) will be available in the second half of 2006.
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