Toshiba says 51GB HD DVD still under development
A three-layer HD DVD disc with enough room for about 7 hours of high-definition video is still under development and hasn’t been submitted for approval to the DVD Forum, the standard’s governing body, despite reports to the contrary, Toshiba said Thursday.
The disc, which has a capacity of 51GB, was first unveiled at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January this year. It attracted much attention not just because it substantially raises the maximum capacity of an HD DVD disc but also because it beats that of the rival Blu-ray Disc format, albeit by just 1GB. In the last few days a number of Web sites and blogs have reported the format has been submitted for approval to the DVD Forum and some have said that approval has been received, but Toshiba says nothing of the sort has happened.
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