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| YOKOHAMA, Japan, February 3, 2005
Six companies including CMC Magnetics Corporation, FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD., Nippon Paint Co., Ltd., Optware Corporation, Pulstec Industrial Co., Ltd. and TOAGOSEI CO., LTD., advocates of “Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD)” announced today to form “HVD Alliance” to accelerate the development of HVD, to develop a marketplace and to promote this revolutionary technology and products. A technical committee, TC44 to discuss the standardization of “Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD)” was approved at 88th Ecma International General Assembly on December 9th 2004. The first TC44 meeting will be held in Tokyo on March 3rd and 4th. HVD Alliance, through its activities to provide a venue for the technical discussions and information exchange among the disk manufacturers, material makers, device manufacturers and tester makers which agree with the purport of this organization, accelerates the development of HVD, develops the marketplace and promotes this technology, thus contributes to the sound development of the storage industry.Alliance companies advance final preparations towards the official launch of “HVD Alliance” in this coming spring. |
Source : http://www.optware.co.jp/english/what_050203.html
Well, while Sony and Toshiba busily one upping each other with Blu-Ray and HD-DVD with promised vendor and movie studio support to become the next ‘DVD’ format for the consumer market, seemingly the HVD format will be the next format du jour, what with marked increase of over 20 more storage capacity than the previous two formats (Blu-Ray and HD-DVD). And look at the thing! It looks awesome!
And who wouldn’t want a 1TB backup storage solution anyway?
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