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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 235 |
| | Posted: | | | | http://news.com.com/2100-1008_3-6175909.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news"We use color to store more information," said Gavin Jancke, director of engineering for Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., research labs. Jancke is the creator of the new bar code format, which uses either four or eight hues to pack more data into less space. The new bar code also uses small triangles, as opposed to the squares used in the 2D black and white bar codes and the alternating thin and thick lines used in traditional UPC symbols. The color bar code is being targeted especially for use on commercial media such as movies, video games and other recordings. Microsoft said the High Capacity Color Bar Code could start showing up on DVDs by the end of this year, thanks to a deal it has signed with an organization that helps coordinate product labeling for audiovisual works.  /Mikkel | | | | DVD Profiler på Dansk |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 2,366 |
| | Posted: | | | | Mmm, I'm wondering how we are going to enter our codes in the future... Gr,Yl,Rd,Bl...  And how do the 7% colorblinded are going to see the correct information. Maybe we can or should only use the Disc ID for these new codes.  | | | Martin Zuidervliet
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 1,380 |
| | Posted: | | | | Doubt it will gain popularity anytime soon. Plus it would have to have the same information written anyway. Theres just so many stores that dont even use barcodes, plus the possibility of malfunction. | | | | Last edited: by whispering |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,744 |
| | Posted: | | | | The "Deutsche Post" already uses two-dimensional barcodes on their home-printable stamps:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:2-D-STAMPIT-Code.png
(The normal barcode is one-dimensional even if it got a certain height). | | | Karsten
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 235 |
| | Posted: | | | | What I don't get is this: The idea is that after adding the new bar code, then DVDs and their packages would offer added security or, potentially, links to a movie trailer or other bonus features.Should I and the store clerk who sold me the movie take a moment and enjoy the trailer for the movie he just scanned for me or why is this useful? /Mikkel | | | | DVD Profiler på Dansk |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 670 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting mikl: Quote:
Should I and the store clerk who sold me the movie take a moment and enjoy the trailer for the movie he just scanned for me or why is this useful? Well, I would suspect they wanted to go a bit further with the scanners hanging around many supermarkets (at least here in Denmark), so that when you scan the DVD, instead of just telling you the price, it would also be able to show the trailer and possibly a "people who bought this also bought..." | | | | The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. (William Gibson) |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | read the story,, real quick, twice, and it looks to me like it ( the bar code) wont have any digits? .. just the color triangles..
Also it appears to read most bar code readers, will not be able to read and will have to be upgraded.
Retailers are not going to like that. | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Of course they will, Terry.  Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,217 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting whispering: Quote:
Doubt it will gain popularity anytime soon Me too. Looks like a sheer Marketing-Wet-Dream. For real purposes (outside MS circle of stupidity) the black & white barcodes are fully sufficient. They are cheaper to print which is a major factor if you have to print a tenthousand labels per day. The 2D-barcodes Karsten mentioned even have a build in errorcorrection, so if a part (don't know exactly how much) of it is detroyed it's still scanable. cya Mithi | | | | Mithi's little XSLT tinkering - the power of XML --- DVD-Profiler Mini-Wiki |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 235 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mithi: Quote:
The 2D-barcodes Karsten mentioned even have a build in errorcorrection, so if a part (don't know exactly how much) of it is detroyed it's still scanable.
cya
Mithi Well, the same goes for the old fashioned ones. If there's a scratch across the bars on the top, it can still be read at the bottom. /Mikkel | | | | DVD Profiler på Dansk |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 1,136 |
| | Posted: | | | | The way I read another article on Engadget, is that they will be using it as "extra content" to be "scanned" by camera - also as a Piracy device, maybe Does not look like another EAN/UPC replacement Phew...  | | | Signature? We don't need no stinking... hang on, this has been done... blast [oooh now in Widescreen]
Ah... well you see.... I thought I'd say something more interesting... but cannot think of anything..... oh well
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,774 |
| | Posted: | | | | The UPC won't die, the new barcode is an addition to the normal UPC-number and, according to the news, is only 0,5cm x 0,5cm. |
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