RED keeps it coming with the RED RAY disk drive
By Nilay Patel 
posted Apr 14th 2008 1:29PM
posted Apr 14th 2008 1:29PM
posted Apr 14th 2008 1:29PM
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the hummer school of design?
Perhaps you'll be seeing red when the price is announced.
That's what she said.
or old rockford phosgate
lol - it does look like an old RF amplifier
Or possibly a new XBOX model.
Its the biggest goddamned drive I've ever seen. Like an entire PC.
in spite of the misspelling...props.
I'm getting a head rush! Its gonna take awhile for all this RED news to sink in
perhaps it is a combo drive / 10 pack media holder?
...good thing for them hd-dvd died.
Now there will be another red vs blue format war.
MMM, I love the smell of failure in the morning.
You calling RED a failure? Good luck with proving that.
Well I thought it was a great idea.
Sincerely,
HD DVD
fail.
Isn't red ray, you know, CD?
that's like hyping the fact that you are using older tech.
Didn't HD-DVD, DVD, and everything else before Blu-ray use red lasers anyway?
It's the name of the product not a description of technology it uses. It could also be named "Ugly as ever, but it plays stuff"
No, HD-DVD uses blue laser tech.
I guess Sarge was right, HD-DVD did fail because of bad marketing: Not enough repeated letters. Should have been called HHDDWDDBVD, and Blu-Ray will fall to Red ray.....
Lol, i was just about to say "Didn't Sarge come up with this first?"
Is Red Ray the same thing as a Red Ross?
Red-ray?! I though blu ray won. But anyway I'm sticking with blu ray until they actually have "4k" tvs that arn't 150inches.
And in the red if you actually pony up the cash for this.
What I've got to ask is just how big this sucker is because from the picture, it's monstrous, though I love the design. It looks very solid.
Straight from the horse's mouth: "The 4K RED-RAY uses standard "red" laser DVD media. The delivery codec is so efficient we can provide more than 2 hours of 4K plus audio on one dual layer single sided DVD". No blue lasers going on here!
I'm assuming this is going to be used primarily for actual cinema purposes. Like, you can distribute a film on a RED RAY disc (which is probably just glorified Blu-ray) and a theater can just pop the disc into the RED RAY drive and play the movie off of Sony's 4K digital cinema projector or any competitor's projector (if there are any...). Just a hunch.