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In the light of the recent events it seems like the bitter fight for the domination in the HD market has finally found its winner.

With six majors movie studios on its side, Blu-Ray won in the past weeks the wide support of various retailers such as Wal-Mart, BestBuy or movie distribution companies such as NetFlix.

According to the reports from the Japanese media and the major news agencies, Toshiba is expected any day now to announce its official withdrawal from the long-standing battle.

However, no official announcement has been made so far, but Toshiba issued a statement as the rumors are running rampant.

“The media reported that Toshiba will discontinue its HD-DVD business. Toshiba has not made any announcement concerning this. Although Toshiba is currently assessing its business strategies, no decision has been made at this moment,” said the Japanese company according to Next-Gen.

With or without an official announcement, Blu-Ray is already praised as the winning format.

The reasons behind Blu-Ray’s success are various and, besides a constant support form the movie studios, there are also some factors that have played in favor of Sony’s format.

While both formats, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, offer a similar quality of the image (though with a slightly advantage for Blu-Ray which can deliver 48 Mbps, compared to 8 Mbps for DVD, 10 Mbps for HDTV broadcast and 36.55Mbps for HD-DVD), Blu-Ray provides full 1080p and has a storage capacity of 50 GB instead of the 30 GB promised by HD DVD.

The Blu-Ray format provides as many as 7.1 channels of native, uncompressed surround sound and it has won the support of the major movie studios by unveiling a better security in order to protect the movies, with technologies like AACS, ICT, BD+ and BD-ROM Mark.

Blu-Ray discs have the same physical size as the DVD, with a diameter of 120 mm, but the main difference resides in the disc structure.

By using a disc structure with a 0.1mm optical transmittance protection layer, the Blu-Ray disc diminishes aberration caused by disc tilt. This also allows for disc better readout and an increased recording density. The Blu-Ray disc’s tracking pitch is reduced to 0.32um, almost half of that of a regular DVD.

However, besides the technical details, another key factor in the success of the Blu-Ray standard was the PS3’s integrated unit.

While for the PS3 itself the Blu-Ray units was rather a disadvantage because of the repeated delays and the expensive initial price tag, thanks to its gaming console, Sony soon surpassed HD-DVD in terms of movies sold both in the US and in Europe.

What can we expect from now on? While for Toshiba and the early adopters of HD DVD, the Blu-Ray victory is definitely bad news, for the majority of consumers it could be a relief and it will speed up the migration to the high-definition entertainment.

As the battle was dragging on for years, no one rushed to fully adopt one format or another, but with a single format on the market, the dilemma has disappeared.

Also, it is very clear that by being the major winner, Sony will try to speed up the adoption of the Blu Ray format amongst consumers and we can expect price cuts for both players and discs.

But winning the battle with HD DVD does not mark the end of Blu Ray’s pains and aches. Sony must find an adequate strategy to cope with the growing competition from online movie services like iTunes, Movies Store or Amazon Unbox, whose success could transform the newly triumphant format in a secondary storage medium, with no impact on the enormous business that is the movie industry.

Imagine being able to peek inside a black hole and even perform experiments there. It may not be as far-fetched as it sounds, thanks to a team which claims to have simulated a black hole’s event horizon in the lab.

Ulf Leonhardt at the University of St Andrews, UK, and his colleagues accomplished the feat by firing lasers down an optical fibre, exploiting the fact that different wavelengths of light move at different speeds within an optical fibre. They first shot a relatively slowmoving laser pulse through the fibre, and then sent a faster “probe wave” chasing after it. The first pulse distorts the optical properties of the fibre simply by travelling through it. This distortion forces the speedy probe wave to slow down dramatically when it catches up with the slower pulse and tries to move through it. In fact, the probe wave becomes trapped and can never overtake the pulse’s leading edge, which effectively becomes a black hole event horizon, beyond which light cannot escape.

This “laser black hole” could allow physicists to examine what happens to light on both sides of a event horizon – “a feat that is utterly impossible in astrophysics”, the authors note in their paper. Cosmologists have already worked out exactly how light should change frequency as it approaches an event horizon – from the outside or the inside of a black hole – and sure enough, the team observed exactly these shifts in their experiment. It should also be possible to use the artificial event horizon to help test whether anything can escape from a black hole. In the 1970s, Stephen Hawking predicted that hot black holes could radiate particles, dubbed Hawking radiation, but it’s tough to check this using telescopes, because they’d be swamped by noise. The team calculates that their laser black hole shares this property, and that it will “radiate” photons if it heats up to about 1000 °C. Ray Rivers at Imperial College London is impressed by the work’s potential to test astrophysical phenomena: “They’ve done some clever stuff to give us a chance of seeing Hawking radiation for the first time.” Leonhardt presented the results at the Cosmology Meets Condensed Matter meeting in London last month.

Author: Zeeya Merali

Microsoft Corp. Friday offered to acquire Yahoo Inc. for approximately 44.6 billion U.S. dollars. In a statement posted on its website, Microsoft said it has made a proposal to Yahoo’s Board of Directors to acquire all the outstanding shares of the search company’s common stock for 31 dollars a share.The offer represents a 62 percent premium above the closing price of Yahoo common stock on Thursday.

Internet service is disrupted more than 50 percent across the entire Middle East. The outages are caused by two submarine cable systems in the Mediterranean Sea which were cut, apparently by accident by ship anchors. India suffered up to 60 percent disruption, while 70 percent of the nationwide network in Egypt is down, news agencies reported.

Similar shortages occurred in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. “It’s a national disaster,” said Joseph Metry, network supervisor at Orascom Telecom Holding SAE, the biggest mobile- phone company in the Middle East and North Africa, as quoted by Bloomberg News.

The cable system which was cut somewhere 5.2 miles from Alexandria beach in northern Egypt was co-owned by several companies, among which AT&T Inc., the biggest U.S. phone company, and Verizon Communications Inc., the second-biggest U.S. phone company. Customers of both companies were affected.

Currently, telecommunications companies are rerouting traffic through other connections which will lead to congestions at peak hours.

“There has been a 50 to 60 per cent cut in bandwidth,” Rajesh Chharia, the President of Internet Service Providers Association of India confirmed to India Today.

Repairs may take up to two weeks. It is still unknown what actually happened, because undersea cables are very strong, shielded with several layers of steel.

“Despite this being an international cable affecting many Gulf and Arab countries, we are closest to it and so we have a lot of responsibility,” said Egyptian telecommunications expert Rafaat Hindy to AP. “We are working as fast as we can.”

A modern undersea or submarine communications cable is made up of a core of optical fibers, shielded with multiple layers of copper, aluminum, polycarbonate, stranded steel wires, Mylar and polyethylene. The first undersea cables were used for telegraph and were laid in the second half of the nineteenth century. As of 2003, submarine cables link all the world’s populated continents.

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