Toshiba Develops Recordable HD DVDs
June 08, 2005
Tokyo, JP - Japan's Toshiba Corp. announced today that it has developed the technology to mass-produce recordable high-definition DVDs.
According to an Associated Press report, Toshiba said the new technology, developed jointly with Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co. and Hayashibara Biochemical Laboratories Inc., will enable the manufacture of single-recording HD-DVD disks with 15-gigabyte storage capacity. Toshiba said that disc media manufacturers will need to make only minor modifications to produce the HD-DVD-R media.
The report noted that optical disc makers Hitachi Maxell Ltd. and Mitsubishi Kagaku said they will market new HD-DVD-R disc media next spring, when Toshiba plans to launch HD-DVD recorders.
Toshiba has been a leader in promoting the HD-DVD format, while Sony's committment to Blu-ray will be demonstrated if it goes on with its plans to release PlayStation 3 with a Blu-ray Disc format DVD drive early next year.
Blu-ray have more capacity with 50 gigabytes compared to 45 gigabytes for HD-DVD read-only disks, but proponents of HD-DVD say their format is cheaper to make because the production method is similar to current DVDs.
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