The manufacturer Pioneer has confirmed that its upcoming 16-layer Blu-ray discs will play back on most current standalone Blu-ray players including the Sony PlayStation 3.
The discs boast an impressive 400GB capacity and are finally headed into production by 2010 after being introduced earlier this year by Pioneer.
Current Blu-ray discs consist of either single layer 25GB discs or 50GB dual-layer discs.
The company also added that it will begin manufacturing 40-layer 1TB discs in 2013.
Result for: dual layer discs
The indie horror distributor Blue Underground has revealed its upcoming Blu-ray roadmap, following its decision in March to start Blu-ray support.
Blue Underground has now released their initial title line-up and the list includes 9 popular favorites from filmmakers such as Dario Argento, Ralph Bakashi and William Lustig.
The nine titles are ‘The Final Countdown,’ ‘The Bird With The Crystal Plumage,’ ‘The Stendhal Syndrome,’ ‘Maniac (1980),’ ‘Vigilante (1983),’ ‘Fire & Ice,’ ‘Dead & Buried,’ ‘Two Evil Eyes,’ and ‘Uncle Sam: I Want You… Dead!’
The distributor also says all of titles will be on”BD-50 dual-layer discs with full 1080p encodes and DTS-HD Lossless Master Audio 7.1 Surround and/or Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Surround audio.”
There was no word on street availability, pricing or bonus features as of yet.
