Sony Blu-spec CD

[mirumu]

Just stumbled across an announcement from a few days back that Sony is pushing a new CD standard called "Blu-spec CD". The articles I've found on this seem a little confused with many suggesting it's a new format, but as far as I can tell they're simply manufacturing Redbook compliant CDs to higher tolerances.

Here's some of the more informative links I found.
CrunchGear Archive Blu-spec CD: Sony’s new CD boasts high quality, is based upon Blu-ray technology
Blu-ray.com - Sony Reveals Blu-spec CD; Profile 3.0 Future Unknown
Blu-spec CD - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This could reduce the possibility of disc read errors maybe, and I can't really see any way in which it could be considered bad in any sense. I just wonder if there's much benefit to make it worth going to the trouble, and how much effect it will actually have on jitter as that appears to be an area they expect improvements. Of course it could just be another flash-in-the-pan standard with little content support ala Superbit DVDs.

[flecom]

sounds like marketing to me... i guess your 1's and 0's will sound better? lol

additionally im so tired of reading everyone talking about blu-ray and "blue" lasers... BR uses violet lasers

[Icarium]

Blue lightsabers had 2x the sonic potential of red lightsabers. True story.