Twentieth Century Fox to release films on Blu-ray.

http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/6353/

Twentieth Century Fox, a member of the board of directors of the
Blu-ray Disc Association, will release content on the new high
definition Blu-ray Disc format through its subsidiary Twentieth
Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC.

The company will begin releasing new films, TV programming and other
titles from Fox’s library of film and television programming when
Blu-ray hardware launches in North America, Japan, and Europe. Fox’s
film library includes films ranging from the Alien, Die Hard and X-Men
series to The Sound of Music and Gentlemen’s Agreement. The TV library
includes series such as The Simpsons, The X-Files, Mary Tyler Moore
and Lost in Space.

In March, Apple become a member of the Blu-ray Consortium’s Board of
Directors. Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD) is the name of a
next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by the Blu-ray
Disc Association (BDA), a group of leading consumer electronics and PC
companies (including Dell, Hitachi, HP, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi,
Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson).
The format was developed to enable recording, rewriting and playback
of high-definition video (HD), as well as storing large amounts of
data. A single-layer Blu-ray Disc can hold 25GB, which can be used to
record over two hours of HDTV or more than 13 hours of
standard-definition TV. There are also dual-layer versions of the
discs that can hold 50GB.

While current optical disc technologies such as DVD, DVD±R, DVD±RW,
and DVD-RAM use a red laser to read and write data, the new format
uses a blue-violet laser instead (hence the name Blu-ray). Despite the
different type of lasers used, Blu-ray products can be made backwards
compatible through the use of a BD/DVD/CD compatible optical pickup
and allow playback of CDs and DVDs.

There’s a competing format, HD-DVD format, developed by Toshiba. It’s
based in large part on existing DVD technology and could well turn out
to be less expensive to produce than the Blu-ray. In fact, Toshiba
claims it can make HD-DVDs disks for about the same price as current
DVDs. Also, players of disks based on Toshiba’s HD DVD technology
would be able to play current DVDs as well as those in
high-definition, according to Toshiba. Paramount Pictures, Universal
Studios, Disney and Warner Brothers have all backed the HD-DVD format.






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Figures that piece of garbage studio would do this.
When Warner and some others were building the DVD business,
these cowards (along with Disney) sat on the sidelines so
they wouldn't have to risk anything. Morons.
-Rich