Well, as predicted earlier, the competitor to the Blu-ray format, blue laser based HD-DVD was approved this week. If you take a peek at the DVD Forum web page item 9, it says that it got the blessing.
| According to the DVD Forum's web site, the DVD Forum approved the specification on June 9 or 10. In November, the consortium approved version 0.9, which defines a 15-Gbyte single layer DVD disc and a 30-Gbyte dual-layer disc.
The approval appears to set the stage for yet another optical storage standards battle. The DVD Forum's member list includes companies like NEC and Toshiba, who developed the current DVD-R and DVD-RW specifications. |
Meanwhile, according to ExtremeTech, rival Blu-ray supporter Sony, intends to ship second generation, dual-layer, 50 gigabyte recorders by the end of the year.
Source: ExtemeTech
