Who gonna win?

On few occasions, we get chance to see the phony-competition between two rival standards. I am talking about Blu-ray disc (supported by Sony,Matsushita & Samsung) Vs HD-DVD (supported by Toshiba, NEC and Intel) fight.

 

Both work on similar principle -trying to write with sharper Laser beam. Using blue/violet laser, we could be able to write more on to the existing disc compared to Red laser used in DVDs. HD-DVD Rom can store data upto 15GB in one layer, when we go for multi-layer, storage can be increased to 30GB. Blu-ray storage is about 50GB for two layers.

 

HD-DVD is manufacture friendly, where any DVD maker could modify his DVD manufacturing product line to make HD-DVDs in less than 5 minutes because all technolgies remains same. Blu-ray disc has more data output capacity upto 72 Mbps which is very essential for High definition video playback.  First release for both products is May 2006. Battle gonna be fierce in penetrating the market and getting people's admiration first. Lets wait and see who gonna win the race. LG is planning to release player which supports both formats with less incremental cost [+]. Well, even though it looks playing things safe, but thats way to go in midst of the battle.

 

[+] You should see the rate at which news gets changed regarding this fight [Link]. This is kinda of hot topic in business in multimedia domain

[+] Happy Weekend folks!

 

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