DVD Forum approves HD-DVD-ROM Spec

KingFishKingFish
edited June 2004 in Science & Tech
A steering committee of the DVD Forum has approved the final specification of one potential successor of today's DVD. The HD-DVD-ROM will carry one or two data layers with a total capacity of up to 30 GByte. First drives are expected within the next twelve months.
According to the Forum, the 12-centimeter HD-DVDs discs will be available with single and dual data layers offering 15 or 30 GByte capacity. Compared to Blue-ray, NEC and Toshiba, believe that HD-DVDs can be manufactured cheaper since the discs use the same layer height as common DVDs. The firms believe that read-only HD-DVDs as well as HD-DVD drives will be available as early as the beginning of 2005.
Source: Tom's

Comments

  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited June 2004
    those are going to be high priced
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    Yeah, for a few months, and then they'll be $70 just like DVD-RW and CD-RW was before that.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    NEC/Toshiba's AOD (Advanced Optical Disc) was approved many months ago, unless this is final approval to the initial approval. :rolleyes:

    I'm just glad this got approved and not Blu-Ray. AOD uses the same 650nm red laser pickup head as existing DVD anything. It eventually switches to Blue/Violet lasers to read AOD content, however it can use the laser pickup head to read existing DVD content, whereas Blu-Ray could <i>not</i> read existing DVDs.
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited June 2004
    I'm for that too. Backwards compatibility means a lot less upgrade headaches.

    KF
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