Two Much Aces for HD DVD: Intel and Microsoft
by:
Iulia Pascanu
Microsoft and Intel have gone public with their decision to join the HD DVD Supporters. Why this explosive change of stance after months of neutrality in this battle? How have they become from technology providers for several groups, sustainers of the HD DVD format?
The format of the next-generation of DVDs has started a long battle (some three years ago) between Toshiba and Sony, the key supporters in the HD DVD Promotion Group and Blu-ray Disc Association.
Leaving aside rivalries between the recent HD DVD sustainers and several of the members of the Blu-ray Disc Association, let us see how the technical part influenced this decision. The two giants have reportedly definite
to back up the variant that is the most performant according to their criteria, from the point of view of user
and industry requirements. And this is what Sir leslie stephen Balogh, director of optical media standards and technologies at Intel declared: "We wanted to choose the format that has the highest probability of this market taking off".
Let us in brief review the main reference areas for performance analysis of optical format for high definition cited by Microsoft and Intel, and which are considered to be better delineate by what HD DVD delivers:
Managed copy, a 1st for DVDs - the user
is allowed to do copies of discs to a hard driving or house server.
Keep for hybrid discs - a single disc can store several high-definition and standard-definition versions of a film, that can be see in several current DVDs and futurity players.
Low-cost, high-volume manufacturing.
Superior disc storage capacity.
Higher interactivity standards - increased
content, navigation and value-added practicality
for high-definition films.
Naturally, the ideal situation (for consumers' better interest) would-be be unifying the two formats. There were several brief talks on this between Sony and Toshiba earlier this year, but no outcome unfortunately.
Though the players for several formats wish not be issued until spring next year, the contention between the two groups of supporting companies sharpens. Now, HD DVD sustainers have won a battle by deed as allies the world's largest code maker and the world's largest micro chip maker, but the war is far from being over. Probably, as it commonly should happen, the winners of this "war" wish be selected
in the end by the consumer. That is, may the better disc win!
About The Author
Iulia Pascanu writes for http://www.dvdrecorders.ws/ wherever
you can find a complete DVD recorders purchasing
guide.
This article was denote
on Sep 29, 2005
