Forward Versatile Disc

The Finalized Versatile Disc, abbreviated HD FVD, often called Forward Versatile Disc, is a system developed in Taiwan DVD format compared to a normal DVD features a slightly increased storage capacity.

As China with its EVD Taiwan has developed HD FVD own DVD format to avoid the high licensing costs of MPEG-2. The disc is based physically on a regular DVD - ROM, but summarizes thanks to a technique similar to Plextor's " GigaRec " and Sanyo's "HD - Burn" instead of the normal 4.7 GB ( DVD5 ) 5.4 GB of data or instead of 8.5 GB ( DVD9 ) 9.8 to 11 GB of data. As a video codec, as it is for HD DVD and Blu -ray ( in addition to the more common options MPEG -2 and H.264) possible Microsoft's WMV9 used (under the name VC -1). The audio format is WMA9.

The HD FVD used as a DVD a red laser (650 nm wavelength ), which is cheaper than the used by Blu -ray and HD DVD blue laser.

HD FVDs is available in three different versions: single layer ( 5.4 GB ), Double Layer ( 9.8 to 11 GB ), and triple layer (15 GB).

The HD FVD was developed by AOSRA (Taiwan Advanced Optical Storage Research Alliance ), a coalition of many Asian companies.

Just like the DEA and the FVD of experts outside their home country predicts little success as yet is not a well-known western film studio on the format and the copy protection is unlikely to be as effective as in the HD DVD and Blu- ray Disc