<A href="http://www.audioholics.com/techtips/specsformats/BluraydiscHDDVDgrowth.php"></A><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="http://www.audioholics.com/techtips/specsformats/HVDHolographicVersatileDis.php"><IMG style="WIDTH: 125px; HEIGHT: 79px" alt=[HVDdisc1] hspace=10 src="http://www.audioholics.com/news/thumbs/HVDdisc1_th.jpg" align=left border=0></A>Almost before the first play of the game, another acronym announces it is entering the next-generation format fray. Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) has already been approved by ECMA and JEITA and the first version of the media will hold 200GB with a technology path that has already been proven to be capable of 1TB (1,000GB or 200 standard DVDs).
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Present plans call for burners and media to be introduced by multiple manufacturers in the third quarter of 2005, just in time for the holiday buying season. If the past and present is any indication of the prices, you can be certain the producers will be "competitive" with Blue technologies when they hit the field.</FONT></P></FONT>
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