Toshiba Vardia RD-X7 writes HD to DVD
October 2nd, 2007
Just when you thought you had to upgrade to all that ‘fan-dangled hi def malarkey’, Toshiba have come out with an HDD recorder, the RD-X7, that can write hi def video to an old-fashioned DVD disk. Obviously there are capacity issues with DVD disks being slightly smaller than their big brother HD DVD disks, but the boffins at Toshiba have found a way around that too. Toshiba have used their unimaginatively entitled ‘HD Rec technology’ to squeeze all the zeroes and ones required for two hours of HD action onto the 4 GB or so offered by the DVD disk. Hurrah!
Oh yeah, what about the recorder itself, well there’s very little spec out there on the sucker apart from the usual support for 1080p/24. So whilst actual details are a bit sketchy the concept sounds good.
There’s bound to be a few gotchas around this new tech from the boys at Tosh, one of which is that we assume a HD enabled DVD disk won’t give you the full blown HD experience when played back on a common garden DVD player, you’ll actually need a DVD player that can spurt out the hi def output in the first place. So it may not be the ideal solution that it sounds like but hey its another option for the hi def consumer and options are good!
By the way heard the rumour that 8-track is the new CD ;)
Source: engadget
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Comments
Don’t believe much of what you read on this site. The writers are just as confused as the consumers.
Quote from article above: “we assume a HD enabled DVD disk won’t give you the full blown HD experience when played back on a common garden DVD player, you’ll actually need a DVD player that can spurt out the hi def output in the first place.”
I would think the writer would know better than to write this garbage. I guess articles are not vetted by management before it is posted.
Although the disc is a DVD rather than an HD DVD, it will only play on an HD DVD Player.
There’s much more information available on HD DVD and the 3X DVD specification on the internet, but you are unlikely to find it here.
–Dave