Sunday, May 18, 2008

Hi-Def DVD Part III:  The War of the Discs

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When we last saw our intrepid hero, DVD, in 2002 or so, it had risen in just five short years to become the undisputed king of all physical distribution formats.  VHS had gone the way of the Old Republic, and tapes were relegated to the closeout bin and garage sales.  Falling prices and rapidly-improving technology was fueling consumer demand for High Definition (“HD”) televisions, and consumer electronics manufacturers were racing to develop a new physical distribution format capable of storing the vast amount of data required by HD.  UCSB professor and Millennium Technology Prize Laureate Shuji Nakamura had made this possible with his invention of the blue LASER diode.

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