Combination Blu-Ray player out next year

Sony is getting ready for the Blue-Ray rush it looks like. I just learned today that Sony is going to be releasing a player for this type of media coming this next year. Coolies.

Sony will be selling a combination CD/DVD/Blu-Ray disk player by the first quarter of 2006.

The drives will be equipped with a red laser reader for traditional formats and a blue laser for Blu-Ray disks. No pricing information has been released as yet.

Matthew Swinney, product manager at Sony, said: “Blu-Ray is coming. It’s a logical step: CDs were created for music, DVDs for video and with high definition video you’ll need the capacity Blu-Ray offers.”

He explained that current Blu-Ray disks, which can hold about 25GB of data, are only the start. By building two or more layers on a Blu-Ray disk Sony will increase the capacity to 200GB. [Read the rest]