Sunday, November 18th 2007
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Triple Layer HD DVD Gets Approved
DVD Forum, the international organization that oversees standardization of DVD and HD DVD optical disc formats, has finally approved version 2.0 of triple-layer HD DVD discs, that can store up to 51GB of data. The approval of DVD specifications for high density read-only disc [HD DVD-ROM (51G)] version 2.0, took place during the 40th steering committee meeting on November 15, 2007. The new 51GB HD DVD ROM disc has a three-layer structure with each layer storing 17GB of data, which is an advancement in capacity over current ROM discs, which hold 15GB of data in each layer of a single-sided disc. Neither Toshiba, nor DVD Forum have confirmed that triple-layer HD DVDs will playback on existing HD DVD hardware, such as players and computer drives.
Source:
X-bit Labs
11 Comments on Triple Layer HD DVD Gets Approved
How bored are those people!!!
also, why would you uncompress a movie?
Plus, it will remove the graininess (it's actually a word haha) from movies that they would encode poorly. I've seen lots of compression artifacts in some of these HD movies b/c they're lazy and don't want to do it right (and it's not the graininess from the film type either).