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Panasonic's Blu-ray Recorder To Hit Market In July
"Forbes is reporting that Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. on Wednesday unveiled what it calls the world's first DVD recorder that supports single-side, dual-layer Blu-ray Discs with a maximum capacity of 50 gigabytes.' It looks like Sony's own Blu-ray recorder will now have some competition."

Comments: Hey cool, 50 gigs on a single disc. Now we can bootleg multiple DVDs at once! Just imagine what kind of movies they'll be able to fit onto one tho. And the extra features.

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Linux-Powered Auto Parking Car
"A really cool project using a Linux P4 machine for automatic parking of a Volvo S60 was presented last week. Take a look at the video. That's how your parking problem should be solved. It is a final-year student project within the mechanical engineering department at Linköping University, Sweden."

Comment: Well, so much for needing to know how to parallel park. Let's hope it doesn't fail.

Please attempt to use normal English spelling - Phong

Aren't blue laser devices harder to produce, and have a shorter lifespan? I thought that was why they weren't being widely used in the market yet.

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Aren't blue laser devices harder to produce, and have a shorter lifespan? I thought that was why they weren't being widely used in the market yet.

From what i read in various comp magazines, the blu rays are going to run around $4 grand apiece. So except for the well funded tech enthuiasts they won't be that common for a few more years. Not til the technology is refined even more anyway.

True, blue ray is expensive. But competition breeds cheapness.

Hey! You ruined my funky euroesque title! Who did that, you bastard!