Blu-ray Products Exhibited At CEATEC

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"Products labeled with the "Blu-ray Disc" logo were on display all around the CEATEC JAPAN 2002 event held from Oct. 1-5 at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba prefecture, near Tokyo.
Matsushita Electric was giving high-definition TV (HDTV) demos using a Blu-ray HDTV player. The HDTV data is stored on 50GB Blu-ray discs, which Matsushita first exhibited at an industry fair in September. These 50GB discs have a single-sided, double-layer construction, and comply with version 1.0 of the Blu-ray specs. Wherever possible -- in the servo system, for example -- Matsushita's new player employs LSI chips originally designed for use in standard DVD players".

(contd.) "Pioneer was exhibiting and demonstrating its 25GB playback-only Blu-ray discs. The player's optical detector has to be specially adapted to handle these discs, as the data-recording layer on playback-only discs is more reflective than that of re-recordable discs." Now if they only can shrink this oven into the size of CD-ROM/CDRW. For full coverage of the exihibit and more photos warp 2 ... www.nikkeibp.com.