t3.com - 9/9/2008
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Good luck finding 400 decent Blu-ray movies Sony is showing off a prototype Blu-ray changer capable of handling up to 400 high definition movie discs at this year's Custom Electronic Design and Installation expo this year. It isn't the first of its kind however; last year at the same event, Sony ...
pocket-lint.co.uk - 9/3/2008
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pocket-lint.co.uk —
INTERVIEW: Andy Griffiths, director of consumer electronics, Samsung
UK Samsung has said that it sees the Blu-ray...
format only lasting a further 5 years before it is replaced by another format or technology. ... Read Samsung: "Blu-ray ...
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NEWS: Samsung: "Blu-ray has 5 years left"
news.sel.sony.com - 9/4/2008
electronista.com - 9/12/2008
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electronista.com —
Sony today continued a spate of notebook introductions
by introducing one of the least expensive Blu-ray capable...
notebooks available. The 15.4-inch VAIO NS replaces the NR and upgrades the budget notebook with options that Sony has normally reserved...
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Sony intros $1,000 Blu-ray notebooks
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Sony demos 400 disc Blu-ray Mega Changer at CEDIA
Newlaunches.com —
... recently demonstrated a 400-Blu-ray disc changer (doubling last year's 200 disc endeavor) at CEDIA. The upped version features a slimmer avatar and is still a demo piece. The BD Mega Changer features latest Blu-ray standard, BD-Live, which means it can hook up to the Internet and download additional content. The unit will also pack an RS-232 serial port for custom installers. The good news is that the player also reads CDs and DVDs, so conjuring up that collection won't be a problem! Source
Sony Shows Over-Optimistic 400 Disk Blu-ray Changer
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... say "data backup" remember that, at around 50GB each, 400 disks is only 20TB. Buying 20TB of hard drives is hardly prohibitive these days, and they're a lot quicker to read and write.
No. The only way Sony could sell any of these Blu-elephants is to crank up the eject mechanism to eleven. A 400 disk box that can fire its payload at a high-velocity ten disks per second across the data center? Build that and every sysadmin in the world will buy one.
Sony demonstrates 400 disc Blu-ray Mega Changer [T3 via New Launches] ...
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... is particularly impressive given that it will allow you to fill up a disc with enough Bit Torrent downloads to keep the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) writing angry letters to your ISP for a year, in just ten minutes. The downside? It's going to take at least a couple of years for the technology to appear and by that time, legitimate downloads may well have taken over. Sanyo is currently chatting to hardware makers to encourage them to get the tech on board. Related Links - Sony's 400 Disc Blu-ray mega-changer - ...
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All we know is it’s coming next year and it holds 400 Blu-ray discs. Is there even 400 Blu-ray titles out?
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sonyinsider.com 5/21/2009 — bdchanger Attention all you Blu-ray disc horders! I know you are running out of space and have been begging Sony to bring a new BD mega changer. There is currently one on the market HES-V1000 200 Blu-ray changer however being so attractive and ...
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blog.wired.com 9/10/2008 —
On its way to the CEDIA (Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association) show this year, Sony stopped off in a side-street and completed a small transaction. It exchanged cash money for some "magic beans", which it promptly swallowed, ...
400-disc Blu-ray changer might be a bit of overkill
dvice.com 5/26/2009 — While storing hundreds of movies digitally isn't too tough if you have a large enough hard drive, storing that many on discs for easy viewing is a much less practical thing to do. But hey, if you're completely resistant to the inevitable march of ...
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