<font color='#000000'>I have been following the Blu-Ray vs AOD thing for a short while. Now I discovered there is another blue laser technology proposed to the DVD forum, this time from the Advanced Optical Storage Research Alliance (AOSRA) in Taiwan.
The two standards proposed are:
The Blue-HD-DVD-1 disk will have a capacity of 17 Gbytes per side and a maximum data-transfer rate of 25.05 Mbits/second. The Blue-HD-DVD-2 disk has a 27-Gbyte capacity and a data-transfer rate of 31.59 Mbits/s.
However another announcement by Ritek in Taiwan seems to be even more promising. They have developed a 100G disk that used the standard red lasers used in CD/DVD players today. According to Ritek "The only hardware change that's necessary to accommodate the disc's higher storage capacity is an upgrade to the player's chip set that supports the smaller mark size." That sounds good to me, if I buy a player today with an RS-232 input or similar, I can update the software when the new disks come to market. And they have much more capacity than the blue laser types.
Paul</font>