You have to love this standards war with HD-DVD and Blue-ray discs. Camcorderinfo.com reports that both Sony and Matsushita are getting ready to release their Blu-ray camcorders here in 2005. Wonder when Toshiba plans on offering HD-DVD devices? ;o)

According to a report by the Japanese Newspaper The Nihon Keizai Shimbun Sony and Matsushita plan to both release Blu-ray recording camcorders in 2005. Blu-ray is a high density blue laser disc format, designed to succeed DVD media. The discs can hold up to 50GB of data and are designed to hold a high definition video image. Matsushita owns both Panasonic and JVC, two of the four major camcorder manufacturers in the U.S.