Toshiba Has HD-DVD-R Ready for Mass Production

The time has come for Toshiba and NEC, the main backers of HD-DVD format to announce that they are ready for single HD-DVD-R disc mass. Their discs can store 15 GB of data, and must be available to consumers in the first half of next year same time that HD-DVD recorders and PC drives are also on the market. As we all know, HD-DVD fighting in a tight competition with Blu-ray for the format of the future "title, which means a billion dollar market as a prize for the winner. Similar blue-laser technology remains the core of both formats, such as blue laser has a shorter wavelength than the red lasers used in current DVD equipment, allowing discs to store data at higher densities needed for high-definition TV and films. The advantage of the HD-DVD-R disc has more than its main competitor, the Blu-ray Disc is the same disc structure as conventional DVD and therefore can be manufactured using the same production. This, for the DVD manufacturers, they can start with HD DVD-R mass production at full speed, immediately, with little extra cost. A replacement stamper is obviously needed and the old paint should be replaced with blue-light sensitive dye resin. The new dye was developed in a joint project by Hayashibara Biochemical Laboratories, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media / Verbatim and Toshiba Corporation. But at the same time, Blu-ray competitor has its own advantages, including higher storage capacities. Toshiba claims that work on this aspect also, but the transition from single-layer discs are written at 1x speed, dual-layer 30GB discs can take several years, her spokesman said. Promised 20GB Toshiba HD-DVD-RW discs entering this time next year. So far, the Blu-ray Disc Association HD DVD Promotion Group and refused to compromise to a single hybrid model for the future DVD. Dvdrecorders.ws is a DVD recorders shopping guide where you can find news, tips and tricks about DVD recorders and Tivos.