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The diode could be used for optical discs including Blu-ray and HD DVD, allowing 10X speed recording with a double-layer disc and 2X speed recording with a four-layer disc. Nichia hopes to make these available by mid 200 Of course, Blu-ray disks have to be made that can actually support this gigantic boost in burn speeds. Wednesday, February 21st 2007 Traxdata has joined the Blu-ray side of the HD-DVD vs Blu-ray war. And what better way to do it than by introducing a rewritable Blu-ray disk? The disk can hold 25GB of data, and can play 1080p HD at an impressive bitrate of 40Mb/s. It also features a hard-coating technology that should make it more resistant to things like fingernails that tend to scratch disks. It can be re-wrote at speeds of 2x. Wednesday, February 14th 2007 Although both HD-DVD and Blu-ray have already been hacked to get around copy protection measures, a Doom9 forum poster has managed to find the most effective b t k trailer yet. Until now, each different film has needed its own unique key to decrypt it, but now all you need is a single Processing Key, which works on both high definition formats. The method used by the hacker was to record all the information that was being read from the disk into the memory and therefore managed to find the processing key. This Processing Key will probably stop working soon however once the Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator gets word of it future disks are likely to be updated. Friday, February 2nd 2007 According to the latest figures published by Nielsen VideoScan, sales of pre-recorded Blu-ray media have outsold HD DVD by a huge margin in the USA. During the first week of January, HD DVDs were selling at 14% of the rate of Blu-ray disks, with that figure falling to 36% during the second. Although overall more HD DVD disks have been sold so far they have been out for longer, the PS3 which can play Blu-ray seems to have given a huge boost to Blu-ray sales b t k trailer shipping over a million consoles in the same time that just 175, 000 HD DVD players were shipped to the US. The Xbox 360 HD DVD drive may help to balance this out a little, but for many the PS3 seems the best value way to move to High Definition. Tuesday, January 23rd 2007 It seems that muslix64, the hacker who cracked HD-DVD, has now done the same for Blu-ray. Blu-ray and HD-DVD both use AACS Advanced Access Content System to prevent people copying the media, but it looks like both formats may have been defeated. By finding the keys that films use to prevent users copying the content, people can sidestep the protection and then rip the movies into another format, essentially allowing them the freedom to do what they want with the films. BD, the second type of protection for Blu-ray, is yet to be broken. Wednesday, January 17th 2007 Despite numerous reports last week including one on techPowerUp! that the adult entertainment industry has gone for HD-DVD over Blu-ray, DailyTech claims that this isnt completely true. In an interview with the site, founder of Vivid Entertainment one of the big names in pr0n, Steven Irish, claimed that his company fully intends to back both formats. The adult entertainment industry has a big impact on sales despite its secretive nature when the industry chose VHS over Betamax it was deemed to be a big factor in VHS success. Other companies such as Digital Playground still intend to stick with HD-DVD to start with, but the industry isnt being exclusive. However, its very possible that online downloads could be the future of all films, not just adult ones, and that could be a big deciding factor. All that can be said so far is that the ball isnt in HD-DVDs court just yet. Thursday, January 11th 2007 Warner home video may just have the answer buyers have been waiting for. If you have been holding out on buying a HD-DVD or Blu-Ray player, because it is not yet set which will prevail wait no more. Warner is now offering Total Hi Def discs, which combine the Blue-Ray and HD-DVD discs on one disc. So no matter what player you own, the movie will play in HD. First movies using the format will be released in the second half of 200 The buyer only needs to pay the extra licensing fee for both technologies, as Warner will not charge more for the special discs themselves. People who bought The Descent on Blu-ray hoping for a high-definition movie experience were sorely disappointed if they had a standard Blu-ray drive. While PS3 users watched away, people who had spent hundreds of dollars more on a standard Blu-ray drive could only stare at a blank screen. The problem has to do with the way Lions Gate Entertainment encrypted the Blu-ray. Lions Gate Entertainment used BD-Java technology, which is not compatible with any Sony or Pioneer stand-alone Blu-ray player.