Two formats are currently fighting for the blue laser market of
optical storage drives - Blu-Ray and HD DVD. Blu-Ray demonstrates high
storage capacity, but its manufacturing requires lots of investments
to upgrade the existing facilities or to launch new ones. Hence a more
expensive end product for a consumer. HD DVD - lower capacity of the
media, but it can be manufactured in the existing facilities (only
minimally modernized) so it's a potentially more popular and cheaper
product. HD DVD was the first to find its way into our lab in the form
of the HD DVD-ROM optical drive from NEC, HR-1100A model..
Head over to Digit Life to learn more.
Formats War II: HD DVD Advances, Flying the Flag of NEC. But only in DVD-ROM
Posted on Tuesday, April 25 2006 @ 10:25 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck