Details of these new discs will be presented at the May 11 HD DVD workshop at Media-Tech Expo 2005 in Las Vegas, U.S., the leading annual trade show for the optical disc manufacturing industry.

HD DVD, the next-generation DVD, currently has already established two types of ROM disc: a 15GB version (single-layer, single sided) and a 30GB disc (double-layer, single-sided.) Both of these disc ...

TOKYO — A group of four manufacturers today announced successful development of a prototype of a HD DVD-R disc, the write-once next generation DVD disc, that can be easily produced at high volume on ...

Format: HD DVD Disc Resolution: 1080p, 2.35:1 aspect ratio Display: Panasonic PT-AX100U (720p) Source Player: Toshiba HD-A2 Audio Formats: Dolby Digital-Plus Video Format: 1080p/24 (2.35:1) ...

TOKYO, June 29, 2005 — The HD DVD Promotion Group today announced that momentum is building for the launch of HD DVD. Several key manufacturers in the disc replication and equipment industry ...

According to the figures, consumers purchased nearly 1.2 million high-definition discs in the first quarter of 2007; of those, 832,530 were Blu-ray titles and 359,300 were HD DVD discs.

The dual-layer HD DVD-R disc is based on the same disc structure as current DVD discs, HD DVD-ROM discs (read-only), and HD DVD-RW discs (rewritable): back-to-back bonding of two 0.6 millimeter ...

Taiwan disc maker Ritek says it plans to start making rewritable discs for Blu-ray and HD DVD recorders. BD-RE discs will hold 25GB, enough for three hours of high-def video or six hours of ...

From the HD DVD camp I tried Toshiba Corp.’s $499 HD-A2 player. In the other corner of the ring swaggered Sony Corp.’s BDP-S1 Blu-ray disc player, which lists for $999 but is available for less.

Microsoft got itself in the middle of a physical disk war when it released an HD DVD movie disc add-on for the Xbox 360. The add-on eventually shut down due to the Blu-ray format winning that war.

Standard DVD-R discs use a photo-sensitive organic dye as a data storage medium in the disc's recording layer. In the transition to the HD DVD format, manufacturers had to meet the challenge of ...

A licensing agreement currently in the final stages of negotiation may provide consumers with the right to legally make copies of HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc movies they've purchased. Such an ...