Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. finally cast their votes to support the HD DVD format being promoted by Toshiba Corp. over Sony's blu-ray format.
Both companies said that the HD DVD format would make it easier for consumers to copy high-definition movies to computer hard drives.
"We wanted to choose the format that has the highest probability of this market taking off," said Stephen Balogh, director of optical media standards and technologies at Intel.
Toshiba, with NEC Corp. and Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd., has been promoting a technology called HD DVD while Sony, along with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., manufacturer of Panasonic brand products, had been pushing for Blu-ray.
The first HD DVD-compatible players and recorders are expected to start appearing on store shelves as early as the end of this year, and new products for both formats are scheduled for wider release in 2006.
By: DocMemory
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