New HD-DVD Format Approved by the DVD Forum

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<font color='#000080'><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>TOKYO - Toshiba Corp. and NEC Corp. announced that the DVD Forum, an international association of electronics makers and movie studios, has approved the two Japanese companies' standard for next-generation DVDs. </FONT>

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<FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>The move gives Toshiba and NEC a leg up on a rival standard based on the Blu-ray disc format, which has a larger recording capacity, advocated by Sony, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co (aka Panasonic), and Philips Electronics.</FONT></P>

<FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>The big deal is this: the NEC/Toshiba version gives you less recording space, but adds compatibility with existing manufacturing plants. According to the proposed spec, utilization of MPEG-4 will provide a greater "bang for the buck" when it comes to compression, so less is more. Blu-ray, however, stores tons more data, but would require an overhaul of all current DVD manufacturing plants - something that would no doubt cost consumers a great deal of time-to-market and money until the format hit main stream.</FONT></P>

<FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>This is truly VHS vs. BetaMax all over again, however in this case I think first to market will be a good thing. HDTV has waited long enough.</FONT></P>

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[abe]

<font color='#000000'>Alas! &nbsp;should go with the other format IMHO. This is very very sad.

Why not use this upgrade opportunity to go more advanced technology? &nbsp; HD is a big leap over regular TV just like DVD vs. VHS. &nbsp; The existing DVD production should NOT be a major consideration. &nbsp;

With this HD-DVD standard, do we envision ANOTHER new standard in 10 years?


Abe</font>

 

[av_phile]

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abe : Alas!  should go with the other format IMHO. This is very very sad.

Why not use this upgrade opportunity to go more advanced technology?   HD is a big leap over regular TV just like DVD vs. VHS.   The existing DVD production should NOT be a major consideration.  

With this HD-DVD standard, do we envision ANOTHER new standard in 10 years?


Abe

From a business perspective, it is strategically important to have only incrementally better standards every so often.  That way, movies like Tomb Raider or Casablanca can be reincarnated in those formats, getting better every 3-5 years, so the revenues continue to pour to movie executives long after the movie is made. from us all the way to our children and their children.  Afterall, the spirit of UPGRADING is a market need that must be envigorated evey now and then.  So rather than leapfrog, do it one small step at a time, ensuring that the same film title wlll continue to rake revenues with every incremental improvements in formats until judgement day.  And in between, do release some director's cut, anniversary edition, collector's edition, Never-before-seen edition, High-bit edition, DTS edition, SDDS edition, etc., etc.,   So if you're DVD and VHS collection survives a third and fourth world war to be handed down, your kid's kid's kid's may have about fifty versions of Casablanca or Gone With The Wind, in varying formats.  In the meantime, the business wealth of movie mouguls is assured until the end of time.</font>

 

[Khellandros66]

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&nbsp;Look Out Multiplexes everywhere.


I am actually happy BluRay wasn't chosen due to the cheasy proposed catridge. &nbsp;I still think MPEG-4 will be best. combine that plus Yamaha's 9.1 and I'll never need anything else.

Just gimme a TAW LCoS, a HTPC, HD-DVD, RX-Z9, and a Definitive BP7001sc system.

Yes I ran around the house for about 15 mins yelling an' hollering, cause its about time (I'm very excited and have been anxious). &nbsp;Next comes 192/24 5.1 and 6.1 as well as true DVD-A.

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[Guest]

<font color='#000000'>I'm excited about anything that can happen quickly. HDTV is poised to really sink its teeth into consumers this Christmas and DVDs are still 720x480 MPEG-2 crappy compression...

This format looks like it can go to market quickly.</font>