Sony Blu-spec CD Format Detailed, Hits Stores 290
CNETNate writes "More details about Sony's new Blu-spec CD format — standard CDs authored using Blu-ray's blue diode technology — are beginning to emerge, with commercial releases beginning to hit Amazon. Blu-spec CDs are compatible with existing CD players but have been mastered with higher levels of accuracy by using the same technology used to author Blu-ray discs, with the intention of eliminating reading errors that occur as a result of being authored with traditional red laser technology. Sony has also launched an official (Japanese) site for Blu-spec CDs."
not as good as HSM cd's (Score:3, Funny)
I much prefer my half speed master cd's.
(its easy, really. burn at 24x or even 8x 'for great justice').
sheesh.....
Mahoney! (Score:4, Funny)
Finally a complement for my 200$ gold tipped cable (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm unimpressed. (Score:5, Funny)
You can use high intensity laser diodes in engines instead of spark plugs. Sure, it's more expensive and doesn't have any benefit, but it's NEWER!
Re:I'm unimpressed. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I'm unimpressed. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Heh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm unimpressed. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I'm unimpressed. (Score:1, Funny)
What's wrong with what they're saying? Are you telling my you've never seen an ethernet packet try to go sideways in a cable? Those little buggers try to pull that on me all the time. That's why I keep a whip and a chair handy.
Back, foul packets! Back I say!
Re:I'm unimpressed. (Score:4, Funny)
The benefits are obvious... (Score:5, Funny)
Of course blue lasers are better to author CD's. Want proof of the superiority of blue?
GI Joe v. Cobra: Good guys have blue lasers
Jedi v. Sith: Good guys have blue light sabers and blue lasers, the bad guys have red
Smurfs v. Gargmel: Good guys are blue, bad guy has a reddish cat.
I rest my case.
Re:I'm unimpressed. (Score:5, Funny)
CDs bought in the store are made with lasers: The glass master is made with a laser. And if improvements to accuracy are to be made by changing the wavelength, I'd say it would say that it would be at the glass master stage where there would be the most effect.
Further, TFA (which you neglected to read) talks about releasing some 60 titles using this newish process. It's obviously not all about home recording.
And mastering houses aren't concerned with speed. They're deep into the funky voodoo of slow, methodical, and reliable. The better ones are almost certainly still burning with carefully-maintained 8x Yamaha and Plextor SCSI drives, and probably even then at rates no greater than 2x or 4x, on carefully-chosen media.
And even if it were: Faster burns, lower error rate? Jesus, man. We'd be burning them faster for years now, with either red or infrared lasers, if the fucking discs didn't distort from centripetal force to the point of being unusable at somewhere around 52x. And it should be obvious, but: Changing the color of the laser doesn't make the disc spin any faster.
Do you apply this much guesswork in other aspects of your daily life?
Re:Not everybody has that luxury (Score:2, Funny)
new format found:
http://media.philly.com/images/condom.jpg [philly.com]
Re:I'm unimpressed. (Score:3, Funny)
It's an extra $300 for the snagless version, the clip cover is platinum, the density of the platinum gives it improved snaglessness, the clip cover is also imbued with magical snag fighting powers via Denon's proprietary shamanizing processes which will banish snags to the land of wind and ghosts!
Re:I'm unimpressed. (Score:3, Funny)
Gold plated cables are outright fraud.
Real dynamic improvement comes from Brilliant Pebbles [machinadynamica.com].
Re:The benefits are obvious... (Score:2, Funny)
Of course blue lasers are better to author CD's. Want proof of the superiority of blue?
GI Joe v. Cobra: Good guys have blue lasers Jedi v. Sith: Good guys have blue light sabers and blue lasers, the bad guys have red Smurfs v. Gargmel: Good guys are blue, bad guy has a reddish cat.
I rest my case.
Sorry, your logic is flawed.
There are green light sabers in Star Wars.
Papa Smurf wears red clothes.
Also, in Japanese theater, the good guy is the red-faced one.
Ferraris are good, and most ones are red.
And what kind of freak would go to a "blue light" district?
Re:I'm unimpressed. (Score:3, Funny)
distort from centripetal force to the point of being unusable
That's one hell of a euphemism for "shatter".
Re:Huh? (Score:3, Funny)
50 ALSO, FUCK YOU. :-)
Sheesh, meme's been alive a couple of days and it's already evolving.
Re:I'm unimpressed. (Score:3, Funny)
Ah, but furry dice are much less energy-intensive and have nearly 50% of the effect, so I feel they'll remain the thinking man's automobile modification choice for many years to come.