Vandaag heeft Philips tijdens de Computex in Taiwan haar nieuwste Blu-ray oplossing, de TripleWriter™ (SPD7000) all-in-one PC Writer, gelanceerd welke in augustus 2006 beschikbaar zal zijn voor de Europese markt. De Blu-ray productlijn stelt gebruikers in staat op een innovatieve manier high definition content en discs af te spelen, én om enorme hoeveelheden files te archiveren zoals afbeeldingen, muziek en videobeelden. Oftewel: Blu-ray biedt haar gebruikers de ultieme digitale opslagmogelijkheid.
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Taiwan - June 6, 2006 - Furthering its reputation as a world leader in optical storage, Philips showcased its latest Blu-ray solution today at the Computex event in Taiwan. A founding member of the Blu-ray Disc Association, Philips’ first Blu-ray device, the TripleWriter™ (SPD7000) all-in-one PC Writer, will be available to mass markets in Europe, Asia Pacific and North America from August 2006 onwards.
The new Philips TripleWriter (SPD7000) showcases Philips’ ability to integrate PC products and technologies into the consumer electronics realm. The drive features recording and playback capabilities of all popular optical storage formats including CD, DVD and Blu-ray, which allows users to select their media of choice depending on the preferred application. Philips’ TripleWriter features a 2x (72 Mb/s continuous data-rate) read and write speed on BD-ROM, BD-R and BD-RE media. The drive reads and writes a variety of legacy media including CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD+RW and DVD-RW.
For further convenience, Philips introduces four robust and easy-to-use disc types: 25 and 50 GB versions of BD-R and BD-RE. The Blu-ray has a revolutionary protective cover layer utilizing an advanced hard coating technology, offering superior robustness, better than CD and DVD. This coating prevents fingerprints and scratches and makes the Blu-ray disc easy to clean.
Philips new line of Blu-ray media provides a full solution of products allowing simple creation and playback of Blu-ray content and discs. The full Blu-ray package provides users an innovative way to playback High Definition (HD) content and archive massive amounts of files including images, music tracks and video content.
The Philips’ Blu-ray products offer consumers the ultimate storage platform for HD entertainment and digital archiving, providing consumers the ability to store massive amounts of content on a single disc. Employing a Nero’s comprehensive Nero 7 Essential digital media software, one of the worlds most trusted digital solutions providers, Philips Blu-Ray products will offer unparallel superiority, amounting to the highest quality consumer experience.
Blu-ray is the next generation platform for HD playback of video content and will be supported by most of the major movie studios and other content providers. The new innovative solutions from Philips will help fuel the growth of Blu-ray as the next generation HD format for both PC and video platforms. The new technology provides consumers with the highest quality level of HD content, unmatched by any other HD video source. Blu-ray Disc has the support and technological innovation behind it to be the industry leader and is supported by more than 160 of the world’s largest gaming manufacturers, movie studios, consumer electronics and PC manufacturers.
“The TripleWriter represents our product introduction into the Blu-ray marketplace,” said Frank Simonis, Strategic Marketing Director at Philips Optical Storage, Philips Electronics. “As a co-founder of the Blu-ray Disc Association and co-inventor of the format, we feel it is important to provide users with a full optical storage solution. Not only are we launching the TripleWriter device, but a full line of Blu-ray media to provide users with a robust PC Blu-ray package. We will be able to ensure users a quality experience and optimal compatibility because we are developing the media as well as the actual hardware.”
The next generation in data storage and recording Blu-ray is the most advanced optical storage standard that satisfies next-generation requirements in terms of storage capacity, data speeds, copy protection, interactivity, convenience and cost. The technology is based on blue lasers, rather than the red laser used with CDs and DVDs. This allows for a much sharper laser focus, smaller pits on the disc and a huge increase in storage capacity.
Blu-ray is the only recording format with the capacity of 25 GB on a single-layer disc and 50 GB on a dual layer disc. Providing massive storage capacity, Blu-ray enables the playback of full-length feature movies using high definition MPEG2 encoding - the native compression technique for HDTV broadcasts - or even more capacity with advanced codes such as AVC. Through Blu-ray, consumers can enjoy enough storage for nine hours of HD movies, 23 hours of standard definition content or 72 CDs on a single disc.
Blu-ray has sufficient capacity to include bonus materials and interactive sessions for an unparalleled entertainment experience. For PC users, archiving photographs, video or other data on the hard disk, Blu-ray is the only recordable/re-writable format that provides such a quantum leap in optical storage capacity and gives a seamless experience between PC and CE environments. Additionally, Blu-ray is based on today’s most advanced technological breakthroughs and offers full backwards compatibility.
For further convenience, Philips introduces four robust and easy-to-use disc types: 25 and 50 GB versions of BD-R and BD-RE. The Blu-ray has a revolutionary protective cover layer utilizing an advanced hard coating technology, offering superior robustness, better than CD and DVD. This coating prevents fingerprints and scratches and makes the Blu-ray disc easy to clean.
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About Royal Philips Electronics Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) is one of the world's biggest electronics companies and Europe's largest, with sales of EUR 30.4 billion in 2005. With activities in the three interlocking domains of healthcare, lifestyle and technology and 161,500 employees in more than 60 countries, it has market leadership positions in medical diagnostic imaging and patient monitoring, color television sets, electric shavers, lighting and silicon system solutions.
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gerhilde.ammerlaan@text100.nl Note for editors: Nero 7 Essentials digital media software, employed in Philips Blu-Ray products to support Blu-ray data recording will be demonstrated together with Philips at the Nero VIP showroom at The Grand Hyatt Taipei during Computex show June 6-9 2006.
Blu-ray DiscTM (BD) is a registered trademark of the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA).
TripleWriter™ is a trademark of Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. 1- Actual storage may be less; 1 GB = 1 billion bytes