This is quite old news to us but still worth mentioning. TDK, one of the leading vendors of DVD discs, is not going to manufacture/sell HD-DVD discs and will concentrate instead on rival Blu-ray.

Corporate strategy director Jean-Paul Eekhout agreed that sticking to Blu-ray would limit TDK’s market initially; but he believed it would win the battle with HD-DVD because it offers more capacity (25GB per disc compared with 15GB) and would, he claimed, bring burners to the market sooner.

He said Blu-ray would also get a big boost with the release of Sony’s Playstation 3 games console this year.

Blu-ray capacities and read-write speeds are expected to rise quickly after the first drives are launched. Eekhout said TDK had already produced four-layer discs capable of storing 200GB.

Source: computeractive.co.uk

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