Toshiba’s HD-DVD High Definition Format

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HD-DVD was created as the alternative to Blu-ray as one of the alternate next-generation format for home viewing of movies.

HD-DVD as a format for watching movies is now a dead format (it won't be supported in future by it's creator Toshiba) and like Laser disks (for video) and SACD and DVD-Audio (for audio) it will soon be a dead-end technology for High Definition Video.

HD-DVD will continue as a storage mechanism for PCs though, and as prices are currently far lower than Blu-ray (for both blank discs and high capacity drives for use in PCs) it may become the PC format for data backup

Instead of HD-DVD we'd recommend that you look at Blu-ray as has become the winning successor to DVD with far improved sound and video playback capabilities when used with compatible High Definition.

For more information please see our High Definition Guide.