OT:Toshiba confirms US HD DVD delay

apit34356 wrote on 9/30/2005, 4:19 AM

Toshiba confirms US HD DVD delay in the US until "February or March" 2006. The technology had previously been expected to hit the market before the end of this year.

Comments from Emails from the "Just shoot-me" engineering society:
It appears the Xbox360 production with the HD DVD is not going as smooth as first claimed. Also disk manufacturing, ( DVD movies and games), are expierencing unusually high failure rates, especially at storage rates over 10 gigs. There's a lot more, but do not want people to lose their jobs. Besides, not all problems are serious. It is interesting about the retail DVD movie production issues.

Comments

Laurence wrote on 9/30/2005, 5:34 AM

So it's not just the Sony format that isn't living up to it's promise! No surprise there. It seems to me like the current DVD format is all ready pushing the limits of what you can get on a small round piece of plastic with any kind of reliability. What everyone on this forum is going to need some day is some kind of a HD DVD-+R format where the discs are 30 cents each and a reliable way to distribute our HD creations. I believe both the Toshiba and Sony formats are a lot further away from that than they'd like us to believe.

Steve Mann wrote on 9/30/2005, 1:28 PM

You can buy a DVD player that has DIVX, WMV9 and MPEG4 decoders built in. Not quite HD, but it still makes HDV deliverable today.

Steve Mann