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• Fight over dominant DVD format intensifies

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  Both camps have garnered followers over the years. Besides Sony and Matsushita, the Blu-ray format has gained support from several other industry heavyweights, including Phillips, Sharp, Pioneer, LG Phillips, 21st Century Fox, Disney, Dell, HP and Apple. The HD-DVD camp, on the other hand, has snagged NEC, Sanyo, Microsoft, Intel, Universal and Warner Music. Currently, only Paramount has expressed support for both.
  

  
  Sony and Toshiba -- leaders of the two opposing camps -- tried this year to negotiate a deal that could lead to mutual benefit, but the billion-dollars' worth of yearly royalties and the continual profit at stake, and most importantly, the huge differences between the two formats, have prevented the two camps from reaching an agreement.
  

  
  The Blu-ray format uses a 1.1 mm disc covered with a protective layer of merely 0.1 mm. By contrast, HD-DVD uses 0.6 mm disc with 0.6 mm protective coating.
  

  
  Taiwan is also striving to be a player in the field. The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and Taiwan Advanced Optical Storage Research Alliance (AOSRA) co-developed a new DVD format entitled FVD, which stands for "Forward Versatile Disc." A double-layered FVD disc can have a capacity of 9.8 to 11 GB. The track pitch has been reduced to 0.64 mm.
  

  
  Huang Der-ray, deputy general director of opto-electronics and systems laboratories in ITRI, said a FVD prototype has already been completed and the FVD-format disc will be available by the end of the year.
  

  
  

  
  ” source: 'DittoIt' 2005-11-09
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