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HD DVD
Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp., the world’s two largest technology companies, will support Toshiba Corp.’s format for high-definition DVDs in a setback for Sony Corp.’s competing Blu-ray standard.
Microsoft, the largest software maker, will make products for Tokyo-based Toshiba’s HD DVD format and Intel will make semiconductors for HD DVD players, the companies said today in a joint statement.
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That pretty much figures. MicroSoft has never been one to advance the state of the art. A simple review of the specs will show any fair minded person that Blu-Ray is far superior to the “HD-DVD”. Blu-Ray will hold much more data than the HD-DVD and we all know that the need for data space ALWAYS increases.
Regardless, though, I think the Holographic disks that have been discussed in this group will trump both of these technologies in short order.Brian FitzGerald
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What is Apple/Jobs supporting in this fracas?
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Brian,
[Brian FitzGerald] “I think the Holographic disks that have been discussed in this group will trump both of these technologies in short order.”
It sure has the potential, particularly since both the DVD HD camps have have mostly dithered away the possibility that they will make a big splash, helped to it by the Film distributors. However, I was very disappointed with the showing of Holographic technology at the last NAB, so we’ll see if they can make up for lost time in their opportunity space before what?, solid state memory? (g), makes them obsolete. There’s always somethin’ new.
Ron Shook
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I see nothing really surprising in holographic memory or its schedule.
We’ve had dvd(+-r(w))’s couple of years, next couple of years brd+hd-dvd-drives and after that holographic systems.
Archiving to solid state will not happen for a decade at least.
Btw, what is p2’s shelf life? -
And who will put P2 on shelf for long time?
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15 years ago everybody would have asked: “Who would put a hard disk on a shelf?”
Today many of us would do that, if they would just be reliable enough. -
P2 is not hard drive but solid memory card, so reliability would be better and at this moment is still too expensive for shelf retirement. The main purpose of P2 is in area of acquisition.
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