Originally posted by jaje
i'm curious...does dvda use the dvd-blue laser?..sony just released the first dvr-blue (can fit 5x the data on the same area as a normal dvr [red] b/c of the shorter wavelenght of the laser)...i believe panasonic was also a participant of the symposium on this technology
No, DVD-A is not the same was DVD-Blue. Not that it would matter, since Sony and Panasonic (and Hitachi, Samsung, Philips, and pretty much everyone except Toshiba) are both part of the Blu-Ray Symposium competing against DVD-Blue.
And I think this is the first time Panasonic has been a main stock head unit supplier for Honda-Acura. Traditionally, Honda sticks with Alpine and goes to Bose for its upmarket stuff. If Panasonic is Honda's answer to Toyota's Mark Levinson, I'm not impressed. Panasonic's car audio line is about as good as Sony's Xplod (aka REALLY BAD)