Four Hollywood Studios Sign On to Support Toshiba HD DVD Format

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 29, 2004 - 4:19am.

Tokyo -- Further increasing the competition between competing next-generation DVD formats, Japanese electronics firm Toshiba announced on Monday that four Hollywood movie studios have agreed to release movies on its high-capacity HD DVD format. Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Studios all said on Monday they would support Toshiba's HD DVD format, while none ruled out the possibility of also releasing titles on Sony's rival Blu-ray Disc format. Both Toshiba's and Sony's next-generation DVD formats use blue laser technology and offer capacities of around 30GB per disc, up from today's standard 4.5GB DVD disc. Toshiba expects HD DVD players to begin shipping in late 2005, when Universal says it will release select titles in HD DVD format; Paramount plans its first releases on HD DVD in 2006.
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