HD DVD - History

History

Optical discs
General
  • Optical disc
  • Optical disc drive
  • Optical disc authoring
  • Authoring software
  • Recording technologies
    • Recording modes
    • Packet writing
Optical media types
  • Compact Disc (CD): CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, 5.1 Music Disc, Super Audio CD (SACD), Photo CD, CD Video (CDV), Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD), CD+G, CD-Text, CD-ROM XA, CD-i
  • DVD: DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DS, DVD+R DS, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-D, DVD-A, HVD, EcoDisc
  • Blu-ray Disc (BD): BD-R & BD-RE
  • Universal Media Disc (UMD)
  • Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD)
  • Forward Versatile Disc (FVD)
  • Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD)
  • China Blue High-definition Disc (CBHD)
  • HD DVD: HD DVD-R, HD DVD-RW, HD DVD-RAM
  • High definition Versatile Multilayer Disc (HD VMD)
  • VCDHD
  • GD-ROM
  • MiniDisc: MD, Hi-MD
  • Laserdisc: LD, LD-ROM
  • Video Single Disc (VSD)
  • Ultra Density Optical (UDO)
  • Stacked Volumetric Optical Disk (SVOD)
  • Five dimensional disc (5D DVD)
  • Nintendo optical disc (NOD)
Standards
  • SFF ATAPI/MMC
    • Mount Rainier (packet writing)
    • Mount Fuji (layer jump recording)
  • Rainbow Books
  • File systems
    • ISO 9660
      • Joliet
      • Romeo
      • Rock Ridge / SUSP
      • El Torito
      • Apple ISO 9660 Extensions
    • Universal Disk Format (UDF)
    • ISO 13490
See also
  • History of optical storage media
  • High definition optical disc format war

In the mid 1990s, commercial HDTV sets started to enter a larger market, but, there was no inexpensive way to record or play back HD content. JVC's D-VHS and Sony's HDCAM formats could store that amount of data, but were neither popular nor well-known. It was well known that using lasers with shorter wavelengths would yield optical storage with higher density. Shuji Nakamura invented practical blue laser diodes, but, a lengthy patent lawsuit delayed commercial introduction.

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