# Wednesday, February 20, 2008

I can buy a High-Def DVD Player Now!

From the New York Times

Technology

Toshiba Concedes Defeat in the DVD Battle

By MARTIN FACKLER

Published: February 20, 2008

The Japanese electronics giant threw in the towel on its HD DVD technology, announcing that it would no longer develop, produce or market disc players for the format.

 

In case you were wondering as I was, what is the difference this little FAQ helped me out. Here are the specs:

Parameters
Blu-ray
HD-DVD
Storage capacity 25GB (single-layer)
50GB (dual-layer)
15GB (single-layer)
30GB (dual-layer)
Laser wavelength 405nm (blue laser) 405nm (blue laser)
Numerical aperture (NA) 0.85 0.65
Disc diameter
Disc thickness
120mm
1.2mm
120mm
1.2mm
Protection layer
Hard coating
0.1mm
Yes
0.6mm
No
Track pitch
0.32µm 0.40µm
Data transfer rate (data)
Data transfer rate (video/audio)
36.0Mbps (1x)
54.0Mbps (1.5x)
36.55Mbps (1x)
36.55Mbps (1x)
Video resolution (max)
Video bit rate (max)
1920×1080 (1080p)
40.0Mbps
1920×1080 (1080p)
28.0Mbps
Video codecs MPEG-2
MPEG-4 AVC
SMPTE VC-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4 AVC
SMPTE VC-1
Audio codecs Linear PCM
Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital Plus
Dolby TrueHD
DTS Digital Surround
DTS-HD
Linear PCM
Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital Plus
Dolby TrueHD
DTS Digital Surround
DTS-HD
Interactivity
BD-J
HDi

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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:50:49 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
#    Comments [1] |
Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:38:54 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
my ps/3 is already ordered and in transit :-)
ben
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