Jockeying into Position: Future Development of Full HD after Toshiba's HD DVD Exit
Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC) [a division of Institute for Information Industry (III)], April 2008, Pages: 17
On February 19, 2008, Toshiba announced that it was abandoning support for the HD DVD (High Definition DVD) standard; this decision by Toshiba has put an end to the uncertainty that had clouded the outlook for the next-generation optical storage market. It is anticipated that 2008 will now be a year of strong growth for high-definition content and high-capacity optical storage. This report begins by examining the competition between the HD DVD and Blu-ray camps over the past few years, before going on to explore the outlook for 25GB and 50GB Blue-ray optical storage applications, full-HD broadcasting, and the large-capacity back-up storage market.
