Petteri Pyyny
6 Apr 2004 11:20
Taiwan's government-sponsored digital video standard, FVD (forward versatile disc), has been released officially today by the country's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).
The new format will add more confusion to the already crowded digital video standard jungle. The specifications of the new disc use traditional red laser, just like CDs and DVDs do, and the two released formats will feature storage space of 6GB for single-layer disc and 11GB for a dual-layer disc. Its difficult to understand what the format tries to achieve, as China has already released their blue laser -based EVD specs, DVD Forum is trying to figure out final pieces in their upcoming HD-DVD puzzle and Blu-Ray is already available in various markets as a blue laser product with storage capacity of 25GB and more. As a comparison, traditional single-layer DVDs hold 4.38GB of data, only appx. 1.6GB less than the Taiwanese standard does.
However, ITRI claims that it has a support of Microsoft for its standard and plans to roll out FVD-based players and other products to store shelves by the end of this year.
More information:
DigiTimes
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