A New DVD Format War
Just when you thought it was safe to buy a new beautiful ... all dance DVD ... comes a new format war to add to an already ... ... original standard DVD just when you thought it was safe to buy a beautiful new all singing all dancing DVD player / recorder, has a new format war to add to an already confused.
Once the original DVD standard sets, DVD players quickly became one of the consumer goods, the most successful of all time. The new format has boosted the market for home entertainment, and manufacturers have benefited directly and indirectly, the fans demanded to buy bigger and better TVs and audio equipment to get the best of their new DVD players.
Then came the DVD, but the problem, as is so often the case, there were a number of different admission standards, all incompatible. It was like Betamax against VHS all over again. Now, cheap multi-format recorders support all the standards are hitting the streets, capturing the problem becomes less of a problem and so you could be forgiven for thinking that this is the end of the format war.
But technology is used to promote a relentless pace, and now a new battle is ready to begin. Hi-tech companies compete to set the standard for the next generation of "high capacity" of the DVD. Superior capabilities will allow even better image and sound quality than the existing standard, and become more popular as high definition television is really starting to accelerate.
There are two competing high capacity DVD technology, HD-DVD (High Definition DVD) and Blu-Ray. HD-DVD works by using multiple layers on a single disc, and its main advantage is its low production cost. Blu-Ray is technically superior - which uses a blue laser instead of red light used by existing operators. This blue light has a shorter wavelength, and thus creates holes in the surface of the DVD to encode the data, are smaller. Small wells means more mass graves in the same space, which means more capacity. Blu-Ray can store more information than HD-DVD, but now more costly to implement. When Blu-Ray technology combines multiple layers behind the format of the competition, which will raise capacity to 200 gigabytes. Current DVDs are only 4.7 gigabytes.
The battle is likely to be won by the format that receives the most support from major Hollywood studios - no one will opt for a standard DVD with a small catalog of titles. Blu-Ray are copying the likes of Hitachi, HP and Sony (which owns the MGM), which seems to have the advantage. Hollywood still does not commit, however, fear losing the support of a horse. For now, at least the formats are caught in a sort of state of the chicken and the egg. As was the case several times in the past tense, only tell you what format is going to come out on top.
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Once the original DVD standard sets, DVD players quickly became one of the consumer goods, the most successful of all time. The new format has boosted the market for home entertainment, and manufacturers have benefited directly and indirectly, the fans demanded to buy bigger and better TVs and audio equipment to get the best of their new DVD players.
Then came the DVD, but the problem, as is so often the case, there were a number of different admission standards, all incompatible. It was like Betamax against VHS all over again. Now, cheap multi-format recorders support all the standards are hitting the streets, capturing the problem becomes less of a problem and so you could be forgiven for thinking that this is the end of the format war.
But technology is used to promote a relentless pace, and now a new battle is ready to begin. Hi-tech companies compete to set the standard for the next generation of "high capacity" of the DVD. Superior capabilities will allow even better image and sound quality than the existing standard, and become more popular as high definition television is really starting to accelerate.
There are two competing high capacity DVD technology, HD-DVD (High Definition DVD) and Blu-Ray. HD-DVD works by using multiple layers on a single disc, and its main advantage is its low production cost. Blu-Ray is technically superior - which uses a blue laser instead of red light used by existing operators. This blue light has a shorter wavelength, and thus creates holes in the surface of the DVD to encode the data, are smaller. Small wells means more mass graves in the same space, which means more capacity. Blu-Ray can store more information than HD-DVD, but now more costly to implement. When Blu-Ray technology combines multiple layers behind the format of the competition, which will raise capacity to 200 gigabytes. Current DVDs are only 4.7 gigabytes.
The battle is likely to be won by the format that receives the most support from major Hollywood studios - no one will opt for a standard DVD with a small catalog of titles. Blu-Ray are copying the likes of Hitachi, HP and Sony (which owns the MGM), which seems to have the advantage. Hollywood still does not commit, however, fear losing the support of a horse. For now, at least the formats are caught in a sort of state of the chicken and the egg. As was the case several times in the past tense, only tell you what format is going to come out on top.
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