DVD Forum approves next-gen format
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Posted on Sunday 29th of February, 2004 at 00:59 by SirQUK
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Digit Magazine Online have published news about the DVD Forums approval of a new DVD format that can hold upto 4 times the amount of information currrenetly available on todays DVDR+/-RW.
"The group of companies behind the DVD format has approved a next-generation rewritable optical disc that is the same size as existing DVDs but can hold more than four times the amount of data.
The rewritable HD-DVD (High Definition and High Density-DVD) format was approved as the DVD Forum kicked off its general meeting in Tokyo this week, according to an official at one of the group's founding members. It specifies a 12cm optical disc that can store up to 20Gb of data on a single-sided disc compared to 4.7Gb on existing DVDs. The format has been largely developed by Toshiba and NEC and a read-only version of HD-DVD, which can hold 15G bytes of data, was approved late last year.
Approval of the format marks a further step towards a format battle that is expected to see at least four incompatible technologies battling in the computer data storage market."
You can catch the full story over at the Digit Website
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