Over at
the 2004 Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies or Ceatec in Japan, Sanyo
has put their prototype HD-DVD player on display alongside
a prototype from Toshiba, which has already been seen at other events.
 The new
Sanyo player and Toshiba prototype were on show in a joint HD-DVD
promotion booth that also had on display several sample discs made by a
number of companies, including Memory-Tech, Ritek, Prodisc Technology,
Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Hitachi Maxell, Imation, Cinram International and
Advanced Media.
The discs included single-sided and double-sided ROM
discs, or 15G-byte and 30G-byte capacity, and single-layer HD-DVD-R discs
of 20G-byte capacity. All of the discs were genuine samples, as opposed to
other optical discs with HD-DVD labels, and all the companies were
preparing for mass production, said a spokeswoman for Toshiba.
Toshiba and NEC have promised to commercialize HD-DVD
during 2005. The first commercial Blu-ray Disc machines are already on the
market in Japan, although sales have been limited by a high price tag and
an inability to play back prerecorded content.
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Source: PC World
