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DVD Forum Approves HD-DVD Standard

Posted by michael on from the profit-margin dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Toshiba Corp. and NEC Corp. said Friday that the DVD Forum, an international association of electronics makers and movie studios, has approved the two Japanese companies' standard for next-generation DVDs. It has always annoyed me that DVDs are not the same top resolutions as High Definition TV. Maybe this will fix it." Well, better get to work rebuying your entire video collection, again.

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  1. Re:Are Michael's trollish comments necessary? by satanami69 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Don't worry, when CMDRTACO dupes this story tomorrow, he'll print something like, "Well, at least my backwards compatible DVDs aren't affected by the new player's DRM!"

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