TDK drops HD DVD

It’s not only movie studios and player manufacturers that has to make a decision about the next generation DVD format, but also the media manufacturers that actually make up the very foundation of the industry. TDK has now decided to go 100% for the Blu-ray format and will not be making any optical media for the competing HD DVD format. TDK has for long been a follower of Blu-ray, which kind of takes the edge of the announcement, but at the same time it’s a bit risky since no one knows what format will come out on top. TDK decision shows their fate in Blu-ray and it will be making a range of different Blu-ray media.

“TDK will offer both read-only and rewritable discs, known respectively as BD and BD-RE media (the RW suffix of previous disc generations has been dropped, apparently for the benefit of non-English speakers, to whom it naturally makes more sense than giving ‘writable’ a ghost ‘w’).”

Source: ComputerActive