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11-27-2003, 06:43 AM
TechWeb (http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20031126S0005) reports that NEC and Toshiba's suggestion for HD DVD's becoming the next DVD standard has been approved by DVD Forum...
The proposal includes both read-only and rewritable formats, but only the ROM format in its 0.9 version was approved by the committee during meetings last week by a vote of 8-6.
As the next-generation optical disk system using a violet laser, nine consumer electronics manufacturers, including Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Sony Corp., Royal Philips Electronics and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., proposed the Blu-ray Disk format that lacks backward compatibility with current DVDs. The Blu-ray format was not proposed to the Forum as a candidate next-generation DVD format, but the two formats are vying to become the next-generation disk system.
Read the rest of the story from TechWeb here (http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20031126S0005), and for more background to the different DVD "standards" vying for becoming the Standard, read here (http://www.hddvd.org/hddvd/difformatsblueray.php?PHPSESSID=c12b0491ca72128cf8afa092b245c9fa)
The proposal includes both read-only and rewritable formats, but only the ROM format in its 0.9 version was approved by the committee during meetings last week by a vote of 8-6.
As the next-generation optical disk system using a violet laser, nine consumer electronics manufacturers, including Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Sony Corp., Royal Philips Electronics and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., proposed the Blu-ray Disk format that lacks backward compatibility with current DVDs. The Blu-ray format was not proposed to the Forum as a candidate next-generation DVD format, but the two formats are vying to become the next-generation disk system.
Read the rest of the story from TechWeb here (http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20031126S0005), and for more background to the different DVD "standards" vying for becoming the Standard, read here (http://www.hddvd.org/hddvd/difformatsblueray.php?PHPSESSID=c12b0491ca72128cf8afa092b245c9fa)
