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Toshiba Develops 3-Layer DVD and HD-DVD
morpheus83 writes, "Toshiba, in collaboration with disk manufacturer Memory Tech Japan, has successfully combined a HD-DVD and DVD to a single 3-layer, twin-format disk. The resulting disk conforms to DVD standards so it can be played on DVD players, and also on HD-DVD players after upgrading the firmware. The disk can have either Single Layer DVD (4.7GB) + Dual Layer HD DVD (30GB); or Dual Layer DVD (8.5GB) + Single Layer HD DVD (15GB). There will not be a long wait as the new disk can be produced on the existing HD-DVD mass production line with minor process additions."
My question is, where do we go from here? What sort of technology do we want 10-20 years from now? We basically have maxed out our solution for TVs. The next big step is not working on a 2D plane of existence it is 3D. Are we expecting HD be here for 20 years? I sure as hell hope not. We need to be able to manipulate light in a way we can get 3D. If you have seen the 3D monitors that have come out, they suck. You just can't fake 3D on a 2D surface like our present displays we have. We have to move beyond HD and think of 3D space. This could spawn a whole new way of filming movies or media. These are things big companies like Sony, and Microsoft need to start thinking up. Not ways of flooding the market with crap like Blu-ray and HD-DVD. What happen to innovation?
Why the hell do you idiots equate Blu-Ray with Sony?
Sony == Rootkits, I get that.
Blu-Ray != Sony
HD-DVD == Toshiba all the way
Blu-Ray == Sony as much as Blu-Ray == Apple == Mitsubishi == Hitachi == LG == you name it.
Last I checked, Blu-Ray is everybody that is media important except Toshiba.
HD-DVD is a smidgen of media companies and electronic wanna bes (except for Toshiba) that happens to be market friendly sooner.
I 100% agree that one of them needs to die first nad if Blu-ray has lillies, then so be it.
I really don't care which one makes it.
As I see it, HD-DVD has a market friendly name that will convey to anyone to knows what it means. The amount of people that care about capacity on the disc amounts to the amount of people that bitch if a website isn't Safari or Opera friendly.
I really thought that DVD-R/DVD+R would matter but it doesn't anymore. This won't matter anymore in 5 years and I'll probably get a player after they hit below $200 as I did with standard DVD.
if you steal from one source, that is plagiarism, if you steal from many, well, that's just research.