Toshiba says 51GB HD DVD still in the oven

Contrary to reports this week that Toshiba had completed work on its 51GB, 7 hour HD DVD disc and submitted it for approval to the DVD Forum, Toshiba says the disc is still in the works, and that it hasn't made any official announcements since early January when it first revealed the disc. "We're puzzled ourself by where these reports came from," said Junko Furuta of Toshiba, who denied such developments. That's all we know for now, no word on when the disc will actually be completed, but according to the original announcement, Toshiba will be looking for approval of such a disc this year.

[Thanks, Zombieflanders]

[MightyTwin @ Mar 1st 2007 5:33PM]

So, that means that BluRay still has the lead, both in the released form, and currently-developing form. ;)

Oh, and I'm not a BD fanboy. Both these formats are great ones. (But I still hold my 2 cents on BD for now.)

-MightyTwin.

[Kev50027 @ Mar 1st 2007 6:50PM]

I'm with MightyTwin. I think Blu-Ray is already getting ready to bury HD-DVD. HD-DVD has had a rocky start since the beginning, and now that almost every single movie studio is on Blu-Ray's side, I don't see HD-DVD going anywhere.

[EdZ @ Mar 1st 2007 7:45PM]

Blu-ray has larger currently released and theoretical capacity, so it's my favourite. Both have equally nasty (and circumventable) DRM, so that's nothing to base a decision on, and both are the same cost (HD-DVDs /may/ be cheaper to manufacture, but the discs themselves are the same price).

[MuElli @ Mar 1st 2007 9:18PM]

"Haha!"

[Andir3.0 @ Mar 1st 2007 10:03PM]

"We're puzzled ourself by where these reports came from."

If it's anti-Sony it's picked up as the truth and spread like wildfire even if it is false. That's where.

[PixelsGold @ Mar 2nd 2007 12:36AM]

Just looks like another example of technology getting ahead of consumers. I think it would be wiser to sit on such technology untill HDTV is in atleast 60%-70% of the homes of the consumer market.

I don't even want to think of how long it would take to burn 51GB of data. Addtionally how often would this come in handy?

PixelsGold

http://www.pixelsgold.com/

[jimmie @ Mar 2nd 2007 10:50AM]

I can't wait to hear complaints about compatibility issues with current-generation players should triple-layer movies hit the market. It's one thing for a consumer to buy an HD-DVD player only to find a year later that BD ultimately won. It's another thing entirely for a consumer to buy an HD-DVD player only to find a year later that the standard has expended to include discs that their players can't handle. It'll definitely lead to some confusion.

[Javier @ Mar 2nd 2007 1:02PM]

I am waiting on the sidelines until I am able to buy hardcore porn in HD 1080i/p... until the day we have that available, the war is far from over. :)

[Geoff Gibson @ Mar 2nd 2007 2:19PM]

@Kev50027

Seriously people need to get their facts straight. Blu-ray does not have almost all of the movie production company's on their side. Here is a break down for everybody:

HD DvD:
Universal Studios(including subsidiaries Rogue Pictures/Focus Features)
The Weinstein Company/Genius Products(includes Dimension Films)

Blu-Ray:
Columbia Pictures, MGM (both are owned by Sony)
Disney
Lionsgate
20th Century Fox

However these companies support both formats:
Paramount Pictures, Dreamworks, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Music Group, New Line Cinema, HBO, Studio Canal, and Image Entertainment (including Discovery Channel Magnolia Pictures, Brentwood Home Video, Ryko, Koch/Goldhil Entertainment, HP, LG, Lite On, Onkyo, Meridan and Alpine

As you can see the non-exclusives FAR outweigh both HD DvD exclusives, and Bluray exclusives by far. As for which format will nab the porn industry well thats almost single handedly going to HD DvD, heres the breakdown for exclusives:

HD DvD:
Wicked Pictures
Pink Visual
Bang Bros
and ClubJenna Inc. (which on 22 June 2006 was acquired by Playboy Enterprises)

Blu-Ray:
NO EXCLUSIVES

Non exclusives include: Vivid Entertainment, and Digital Playground Inc.

Each industry has a stable foothold in the market. Blu-ray has more exlcusive movie production companies on its side, but HD DvD has more porn industry studios on its side. However, the large majority of the movie production companies are still non-exclusive. Nobody is the winner.

Also, it should be noted that Sony, Disney, and Fox are ALL infamous for putting their money on the losing format. Sony with its Betamax, and Fox and Disney with DIVX. Their exclusivities do not mean very much.

[javier.guillermo @ Mar 2nd 2007 7:40PM]

Thanks for the info Geoff,
HD-DVD has to problems:
1) PS3
2)The biggest studio "20th century Fox" is on Blue ray side.

It is good we are going have some porn in HD soon but these studios are like 1% of the total production, plus each porn HD-DVD I have seen is almost 50 bucks!!!
Something I don't like about both HD-DVD and Blue ray is that movies on both formats are usually 29.99$ not, just the usual 19.99$ of DVDs, plus their cheapest players are between 400 to 600$.
In my opinion the war is far from over, it is just warming up.

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