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HD-DVD due in 2005; backers downplay MGM.(News)(high definition digital video disks)
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September 19, 2004
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- Wolf, Jessica
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One of two competing camps for a next-generation optical-disc format shifted into high gear last week, with the announcement that HD-DVD will hit the market next year.
Toshiba Corp. and Sanyo Electric Co. will launch the first HD-DVD hardware players into the American and Japanese markets by the fourth quarter of 2005. Computer manufacturer NEC Corp. will simultaneously release an HD-DVD-enabled computer hard drive.
The three companies announced release plans last week in Hollywood despite the fact that not one major film studio--save Sony's Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment in the Blu-ray Disc camp--has so far lined up on either side of the next-generation fence.