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Write-once HD-DVDs due in shops early next year

Paul Kallender, IDG News Service

06/09/2005

Volume production of a write-once HD-DVD-R disc that can store 15G-bytes of data will begin in the first half of next year, about the same time that HD-DVD recorders and PC drives will become available, Toshiba and two optical disc makers said at a news conference Wednesday.

The HD-DVD-R discs, which have about three times the storage capacity of today's DVD-R discs, should give consumers who want to record and store content on the HD-DVD format an alternative to the 20G-byte HD-DVD-RW discs that will also be in shops about the same time, according to Toshiba.

HD-DVD's backers had already discussed the development of the HD-DVD-RW discs, which can be rewritten many times, but had not talked about a write-once technology until Wednesday. The companies would not discuss pricing, but the write-once discs are expected to offer a cheaper alternative to rewritable discs for customers who buy HD-DVD equipment.

HD-DVD is competing with the Blu-ray Disc format to become the next-generation DVD technology. While Blu-ray backers Sony and Matsushita Electric Industrial promote Blu-ray's high storage capacity as its main advantage for consumers, HD-DVD's chief virtue is that it can be made on the same equipment used to manufacture DVDs, according Toshiba and NEC, the format's principal backers.

This reduces costs for manufacturers because they don't have to buy new manufacturing equipment, and means that HD-DVDs can be made for nearly the same price as DVDs, its backers claim.

However, that compatibility with DVD-making equipment hadn't extended to HD-DVD-R because of an issue with the layer of dye used to store data in write-once discs.The problem has now been overcome, Hideaki Ohsawa, a senior manager with Toshiba's Core Technology Center, said Wednesday.

HD-DVDs have the same structure as DVDs, but in HD-DVDs, data is written with a blue laser that has a narrower wavelength than that of the red lasers used for DVDs. The narrower wavelength means more data can be stored, but the dye used in DVD-R discs isn't sensitive enough to work with blue lasers, Ohsawa said.

The trick has been to make dye that is more sensitive, can be spun onto discs with the same process used for DVD-R production, and is strong enough to withstand many replays. Other dyes developed to date have not met all those criteria, according to Toshifumi Kawano, a senior manager at disc maker Mitsubishi Kagaku Media.

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Mitsubishi Kagaku has so far produced about 1,000 prototype discs, and Hitachi Maxell has also produced prototypes. Both companies are confident they can mass-produce HD-DVD-R discs with the same equipment they use to make DVD-R discs, he said.

Before the disc makers companies can gear up for production, the HD-DVD-R specification needs to be finalized by the DVD Forum, the standards body for the DVD format. This should be done within the next two months, according to Junko Furuta, a spokeswoman for Toshiba.

So far, only Mitsubishi Kagaku and Hitachi Maxell have said they'll make HD-DVD-R discs, but a number of disc makers who are members of the DVD-Forum are expected to announce production plans later, she said.

Toshiba plans to sell both HD-DVD recorders and PC drives compatible with the HD-DVD-R discs in Japan and the U.S. early next year, she said. Sanyo Electric plans to launch a recorder in 2006, it said.

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"Making the 2x type and the 4x type is not so difficult, but making the 8x type will need a more powerful laser and it will take more time," he said.

The 2x version could be ready in about a year from now, Ohsawa said.

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On its 30th birthday DVDresales.com allows you to sell used DVDs, the VCR begins its goodbyes

TINA HINZ and EMILY ANDERSON, Courier Staff Writers

WATERLOO --- The VCR will celebrate its 30th birthday Tuesday, but it's already showing signs of old age.

The 1975 debut of the video cassette recorder forever changed American television viewing habits, but with the advent of new technology, the VCR may be entering its final decade.

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Just as compact discs wiped out cassette tapes in the music industry, now relatively inexpensive DVD players and other digital recording systems are giving VCRs the boot. Rocky Mountain News reported DVDs overtook VHS sales in 2001, and DVD rentals surpassed VHS for the first time in 2004.

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Mark Kunce, operations manager for Best Buy in Waterloo, says the store likely will stop selling VCRs as soon as 2010. Three years ago, Best Buy stopped selling VHS tapes, although they're still available on the company's Web site.

"We get quite a few people coming in who want to replace VCRs just because that's what they're used to," says Eric Morgan, an associate in Best Buy's home theater department. Many customers aren't ready to dump their VHS collections but still want the option of DVDs. Those customers often opt for a combination DVD/VCR unit, referred to as a transitional technology.

Combination machines allow VHS tapes to be dubbed onto DVD. While picture and sound quality does not improve in the transfer, a DVD is a more durable format and requires less physical storage space than VHS, says Jeff Stein, assistant professor of electronic media at Wartburg College in Waverly.

Further sealing the fate of the VCR is the digital video recorder. TiVo, the most well known of DVRs, allows consumers to pause live television and watch programs at their convenience by digitally recording them onto a hard drive similar to that of a computer.

DVRs are built in to some satellite television tuners, and TiVo also can include DVD recordable and rewriteable drives to save broadcast programs on disc.

The idea that viewers never have to watch a show at its original broadcast means advertisers must change their strategies to reach them, says Stein.

" ... If you tape a show off the air, you can fast forward through the commercials, and that's made it really a challenge for advertisers to get their message across," he says.

Mark Johns, professor of communication studies at Luther College in Decorah, says the time-shift idea of watching shows at one's leisure is here to stay. Sell your used DVDs and while technology will continue to improve the way we do that says DVDresales.com, the VCR lit the match that sparked the home entertainment fire.

"Maybe we'll see them (VCRs) in museums in 10 to 20 years and remember them nostalgically," Johns says.

Contact Tina Hinz at (319) 1580. Contact Emily Anderson at (319) 291-1424.

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