Panasonic's parent company is set to release a DVD recorder based on the Blu-ray Disc format, as a standards battle over next-generation DVD technology heats up.
A group promoting and developing a format for a next-generation DVD technology announced on Wednesday the completion of the first version of the specification, paving the way for disc production.
Backers of the Blu-ray DVD format are adopting Microsoft's video compression technology, giving the software giant a secure foothold in each of the two major camps battling to establish a successor to DVDs.
An industry standards group has made a preliminary decision to include Microsoft's video compression technology in a next-generation DVD format, giving the company a key boost in the digital media arena.
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The next generation in DVD technology will let consumers carry the equivalent of a hard drive on a disc, but what are they supposed to do with all that capacity? Interact, supporters say.
Panasonic has decided to back two runners in the DVD standards race, releasing a DVD drive that writes and reads in both DVD-RAM and DVD-R disc formats. The LF-D311S DVD-RAM/R drive is the first of its kind to be released in Australia.
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Pre-recorded DVDs like DVD-ROM and DVD-Video discs have been around for some time now but it has only been recently that recordable and re-writeable DVDs are becoming most talked about.
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