Toshiba 51GB HD DVD Discs Might Not Work In Players January 18, 2007
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There will be a lot of media coverage on this later today no doubt but, for now, Toshiba has announced the creation of a 51GB blank HD DVD disc. Whoopee, as it manages to creep past the biggest Blu-ray blank disc by a mere 1GB. The only problem though is that the new disc might not actually play in existing HD DVD players. This sort of dampens the excitement, doesn’t it? A spokesman for the company told BetaNews:
“Since the disc is not standardised yet we are researching whether it is applicable to the current HD DVD players.”
My condolences go out to all those early adopters. For those of you sitting on the fence or still saving, this is what you’ll be getting.
The 51GB read-only disc can store up to 7 hours of high-def content. It’s a triple layer disc with each layer storing 17GB of data. This still lags behind the 25GB that Blu-ray discs can cram into each layer but at least it’s a step in the right direction.
Don’t hold your breath though since Toshiba does not expect approval for the new disc by the DVD Forum until the end of the year.-Martin Lynch
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Comments
It would be interesting to know if these work in Toshibas own HD DVD-R laptop posted prior to this!
I believe Toshiba has took the right approach, by saying it might not work on HD-DVD players it takes itself out of the implication of being casted a lier. This has happened to companies that state software/hardware work and then it does not.
Well done Toshiba for taking the logical approach!