Intel to support Blu-ray
- Posted September 19th, 2007 at 16:39 EDT by
- 17 Comments
Today, in a keynote during the Intel Developer Forum, the corporation's CEO Paul Otellini announced that their fifth-generation Centrino mobile platform codenamed Montevina will be supporting both HD-DVD and Blu-ray when it ships next year.
Up till now, Intel has exclusively backed HD-DVD, but just like companies as LG Electronics and Warner Brothers have done thus far, it has now choosen the safe and neutral side in the high definition format war. Although some analysts predicted to have a winner between Blu-ray and HD-DVD by the end of this year, it now that the battle will spill over into 2008.
The winter holidays will probably give us some good comparisons between HD-DVD and Blu-ray and which is progressing better. We'll keep you up to date.
Source: EDN
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k_nice_66_11_77
- 12:11pm EDT - September 19th, 2007
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all aboard. honk! honk! n I ain't talkin bout a hype train....
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Supra2JZGTE
- 12:57pm EDT - September 19th, 2007
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What is going on? Intel said they backed out of BD because of the DRM issue they were having. They (Intel) said that HD-DVD allowed Mandartory Managed Copying VS BD not allowing that. They(Intel) said it will get in the way of there VIIV technology. Knowing Intel, they are supporting BD in terms of optimizing the chip to decode BDs as well as keeping the support for there VIIV technology with HD-DVD. But again, who knows?
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Mecha_Daddy
- 12:58pm EDT - September 19th, 2007
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Another company sees supporting hd-dvd exclusively as pointless....
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Random1448
- 1:30pm EDT - September 19th, 2007
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wow, didn't see that coming. good news. Hey Microsoft, toshiba, and universal, go blu, all the cool corporations are doing it.
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debamf
- 6:36pm EDT - September 20th, 2007
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I listened to the IGN PlayB3yond podcast and one said they had worked at Paramount, he said Paramount were always last to recognise new technologies and last to react to the change in the market. One of them said that they heard that Universal are considering coming to Blu-ray? Just rumors.
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Soviet-Messiah
- 2:41pm EDT - October 5th, 2007
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Good. HD-DVD was a failure from the start anyways. People already have DVDs so to label something new so closely to something they already have is dumb. Thats why PS3 should have been named something neater. 360 would have done nowhere near as well if was just called Xbox 2 or if the Wii was Gamecube 2. Thats why people want Blu-Ray, it justs SOUNDS new and exotic.
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