Toshiba Wins Support For HD DVD Format
 

Toshiba Corp. said Monday it has won support from four U.S. film studios for its next-generation DVD format called HD DVD.

The four studios are Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Studios, the major Japanese electronics maker said.

HD DVD is a new high-definition DVD disc developed by Toshiba, NEC Corp. and other companies. It is competing against a rival technology called Blu-ray Disc, promoted by Sony Corp., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and others.

Toshiba plans to begin selling its first HD DVD products, a player and a recorder, in the fourth quarter of 2005, and a notebook personal computer with a built-in HD DVD drive at the end of the year, the company said.

News source: ieXbeta
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