James Fee
06-09-2005, 06:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.betanews.com/article/HDDVDs_Successfully_Mass_Produced/1118245459' target='_blank'>http://www.betanews.com/article/HDDVDs_Successfully_Mass_Produced/1118245459</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Disc manufacturers Maxell and Verbatim said they have found a way to successfully mass-produce HD-DVDs on standard DVD-recordable production lines, an important breakthrough that would help ease the transition to the next-generation format. Toshiba developed HD-DVD, which is one of two formats vying for supremacy in the race to bring high-definition video to DVD. The two companies will start producing HD-DVDs in bulk next year around the same time compatible drives begin to appear in personal computers, and the first HD-DVD recorders hit the market."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/hddvd.gif" /> <br /><br />Well there you go. They have talked about this as one of the selling points of HD-DVD. It appears that the prototype holds 15 GB of data, much smaller than Blu-Ray. But if you don't have to invest in new equipment to produce the discs, that goes a long way toward making up for the smaller storage size.