-- Still image decoder & Thomson Multimedia's Film Grain Technology (FGT) accelerators, compliant with
HD-DVD specifications.
Earlier this year, Toshiba released a pair of
HD-DVD players: the HD-A1 ($499) and the HD-XA1 ($799).
M2 Engineering, on the other hand, has said that the company has no preferences and although
HD-dvd would make it easier to adapt the company's current equipment, Blue-Ray would ensure that the customers would need new machines, reported the Swedish technology newspaper Ny Teknik.
The
HD-DVD format can best be viewed as an extension of the current 4.7-GB DVD recordable technology.
One factor related to player manufacturing costs is the
HD-DVD units use a single lens that emits red and blue laser light, and reads both current and next-generation discs.
Recent sales figures show consumers have just about voted with their credit cards and placed the champion's belt on Blue-Ray, despite
HD-DVD systems being cheaper.
But they have a rival, the
HD-DVD player, which does more or less the same thing.
Blu-Ray and
HD-DVD are the two biggest formats in the next generation of optical discs and players (think better quality, bigger capacity DVDs and players).
Toshiba will demonstrate its prototype
HD-DVD players by hooking them up to liquid crystal display televisions as well as personal computers that incorporate the
HD-DVD technology.
The red-laser contender is the high-density DVD (
HD-DVD), which has the same structure as a traditional DVD.
The DVD Forum itself voted to approve the use of a completely different low-bit-rate compression technology for High-Definition DVD (
HD-DVD).
TOSHIBA have become the first computer maker to ship a portable computer with an
HD-DVD drive.