HP Backs Blu-ray Disc Technology

This is very cool for us and for them... I had written about Blu-Ray before here, here, here and here. This seems to be the upcoming new standard for optical disk technology -- able to store about 50Gb per disk. Unfortunately, a couple other companies are trying out competing, non-compatible technologies. The adoption of Blu-Ray by giant HP will go a long way to make this the overwhelming standard and to lower the price for the consumer... From Slashdot comes the announcement: bq. Finally HP announced plans to include Blu-ray Disc drives across many of its product lines, including select consumer desktop and notebook PCs, personal workstations and digital entertainment centers. They will start selling PCs equipped with Blu-ray Disc drives in late 2005. An optical disc technology, Blu-ray Disc is poised to replace current DVD technology and become the next standard for personal computing data storage and viewing high-definition movies. More than 70 of the world's leading technology and entertainment companies have committed to the Blu-ray Disc format. Good stuff!