Sonic Announces Support for Blu-ray Disc Data Recording

Posted on Thursday, January 6, 2005 by MegaZone

Sonic and Roxio Applications for CD and DVD Creation to Add Blu-ray Burning
Sonic Solutions® (NASDAQ: SNIC), the leader in digital media software, today announced at the Consumer Electronics Show that it will support the forthcoming Blu-ray data recording standard in its line of Sonic- and Roxio-branded consumer applications, as well as in its industry-standard AuthorScript® Software Development Kit (SDK) for CD and DVD creation. Working closely with the leading drive manufacturers implementing the Blu-ray format, Sonic is leveraging its advanced DVD recording technology, deployed on hundreds of millions of PCs worldwide, to deliver the industry’s first, next generation BD-RE and BD-R data recording applications when the first drives ship in the summer of 2005.

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  • gweepprefect

    Have you seen any projections for burnable media cost? I assume it’ll be ridiculous for a good long while.