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Anybody who is fed up with new formats of media and still has only vinyl switch off your monitor now.  Boosted by their success in the High Definition DVD war with Blu-ray they have decided to expand the Blu franchise with Blu-spec CD.

Details are sketchy regarding the actual advantages due to a poorly translated Japanese press release, but what we do know is that it aims to overthrow the CD.  Unsurprisingly, they are burned using the Blu Laser Diode (hence the Blu) and even more unsurprisingly they will cost around the $20-$35 mark.  Obviously, we don’t know what you are paying for but the general consensus is that it will be significantly better sound quality.

What we were surprised by was that despite the fact that Blu-ray discs need to be read by a blue laser, the Blue-spec CD will be able to be read by your standard red laser CD player—just don’t ask how or why!  60 titles are set to be released by Christmas eve including “The Guardian of Heaven” by Satanta and ELO’s “Discovery,” but don’t expect to see it in the US soon.  There is no news on this outside of Japan so stay tuned for more information when we get it!

Source [PocketLint]
Release [sme]