Toshiba Has HD-DVD-R Available for Mass Production
by:
Iulia Pascanu
The time has move for Toshiba and Nec, the main backers of HD-DVD format to announce they're available for write-once HD-DVD-R disc mass production.
Their discs can store 15 GB of data, and should be accessible for the consumers in the 1st half of the next year, by the same time that HD-DVD recorders and PC drives wish be likewise on the market.
As we all know, HD-DVD fights in a tight competition with Blu-ray for the “format of the future” title, that likewise means a multibillion dollar market as a cost for the winner.
Similar blue optical maser technology stays at the core of some
formats, as the blue optical maser has a shorter wavelength than the red lasers used in current DVD equipment, allowing discs to store data at higher densities required for high-definition TV and movies.
The advantage that HD-DVD-R disc has over its main competitor, the Blu-ray disc is it has the same disc structure as the classic DVD and thus can be factory-made
by victimisation the same creation lines. This, for the DVD manufacturers, means they can start HD-DVD-R mass creation at full speed, right away, with not more additional cost. A replacement stamper is required of course and the old dye must be replaced with blue-light sensitive, rosin dye. The new dye was developed in a joint project of Hayashibara Organic chemistry
Laboratories, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media/Verbatim and Toshiba Corporation.
But at the same time, Blu-ray competition has its own advantages, like superior storing capacity. Toshiba claims it works at this aspect also, but moving from single-layer discs that are written at 1x speed, to dual-layer 30GB discs could take some years, its spokespersons said. Toshiba secure
to introduce 20GB HD-DVD-RW discs by this time next year.
So far, the Blu-ray Disc Association and the HD DVD Promotion Group have refused to compromise to a unified hybrid format for the futurity DVD.
About The Author
Iulia Pascanu writes for http://www.dvdrecorders.ws/ wherever
you can find a complete DVD recorders buying guide.
This article was announce on Sept
24, 2005
