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Wednesday September 28, 2005 12:26 pm
Microsoft and Intel announce their support for HD DVD
The HD Format DVD war is still going on and Toshiba’s HD DVD camp just got 2 more allies. Microsoft and Intel announced yesterday that they will be supporting the HD DVD format over Blu-Ray. Each format has a significan’t amount of followers, but at this point it really is a wash as far as who is ahead. The main reason for Intel and Microsoft’s support is the storage capacity. For a while, Sony has claimed Blu-Ray has the most storage, but yesterday it was established that due to Toshiba’s dual-layer technology, their discs will hold up to 30GB rather than Blu-Ray’s 25GB. Which format will prevail?
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There could be a case of many raged XBOX360 owners if Microsoft doesn’t include the ability to read HD-DVDs out of the box, then later decides to add it for the same price.
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yomer, would be funny to see the rage though.
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How are they bigger at 50 gb if Blu-Ray has been able to reach 50gb for a really long time in their dual layer burns.
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Furthermore they have made 100gb disks.
http://www.tdk.com/tecpress/20050606_100gbluelaser.html
Info from www.blu-ray.com
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