An Introduction to HD-DVD

High density digital versatile disc format is an optical digital is being developed. The HD DVD is similar to competition Blu-ray Disc. He is currently in a format war with Blu-ray Disc proposed by the Blu-ray Disc Association. HD DVD has a single layer and 15GB dual layer capacity of 30 GB of capacity. The surface layer is 0.6mm thick, which is the same thickness of the surface layer as standard DVDs. HD DVD is cheaper to produce Blu-ray, which requires new tools for DVD production lines. Another advantage of Blu-ray Disc is the structure that makes DVD players, therefore, for full compatibility of HD DVD will be able to play DVDs and CDs. But it is now likely that Blu-ray Drive is backward compatible with DVDs. HD-DVD offers plenty of storage capacity needed for all types of recorded content, including high definition movies and music, as well as computer data and files. There are two types of HD-DVD content for the discs, single-layer disc and 15GB dual layer with twice the capacity, a total of 30 GB. Using the latest technology for compression, 30Bg disc can store up to 7 hours of images. Today, the DVD has a capacity of 4.7 GB, and the store only 2 hours of standard definition content. HD-DVD discs have a data rate of 36.55Mbps which allows the flow of data from 24 Mbps to digital television broadcasts that were recorded without a problem. The use of HD-DVD in the world each day, has many advantages over other technologies for optical communications. Resilience HD DVD disc has a protective layer, which eliminates the need for a protective cartridge, so that the development of thin pieces of equipment. She added The bulk of a disk cartridge which has also caused the use of laptops in a cartridge-based optical disc media to increase significantly the size to provide more space in the device you Need. Red Chuck site running on both http://www.blueray-media.co.uk http://www.blueray-media.co.uk Blu Ray and HD DVD formats http://www.hddvd media. co. uk / http://www.hddvd-media.co.uk/