
Comin' straight outta Thuringia is the first news we've heard in a year about HD DVD's red-laser cousin,
3X DVD. CDA Datenträger Albrechts GmbH has announced its started production of 3X DVDs, which are basically HD content,
compressed with VC-1 or MPEG-4 and
AACS DRM, on a standard red laser DVD that is readable only by
HD DVD players. The advantage is that it costs the same to produce as a regular DVD, and CDA is apparently producing dual-sided DVD-10 discs, with standard DVD content on one side, and HD on the other. Of course, with several German studios dropping HD DVD support (along with a
few others you may have heard of) its hard to see who will take advantage of CDA's new capabilities.
[Via
EMediaLive]