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HD-DVD format approved

16.03.2004

Advocates of the new HD-DVD (High Definition and High Density-DVD) optical media format may be celebrating an intermediate victory. Although it is still very far from a complete and universal transition to disks of this standard, a serious step in this direction has been made.

At the recent meeting of the DVD Forum participants in Tokyo, the HD-DVD standard (the capacity of such a disc is 20 GB) was officially approved. Recall that Toshiba and NEC, which are in a clear minority compared to another alliance promoting Blu-ray optical media, are at the origins of this format.

This format allows you to write 25 GB of data to disk, but requires a serious retooling of production. By the way, the matter is not limited to these two standards. Sony, despite participating in the Blu-ray alliance, is developing its own standard for professional optical discs, which are still called Professional Disc. They are supposed to be used on television.

In addition, the English company Plasmon PLC is also making moves in a similar direction. Its engineers are busy creating an optical disc UDO (Ultra Density Optical), whose task will be to store data in various kinds of library archives (as an alternative to magneto-optics).

All four listed formats are in no way compatible with each other, so let the strongest win.

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