As the article states:
“Optical media developer Verbatim has announced plans to support the development of both Blu-ray and High-Definition DVD (HD-DVD) recordable and rewritable media. Both formats are expected to begin shipping in early 2006, when high-definition drives and recorders are expected to be released.”

This tells me that even the “movers and shakers” of the DVD media industry can’t pick a clear winner at this time…and that’s a shame, because consumers will be the ones paying until a format is declared the champ.

Can two competing formats survive, much like DVD-R vs. DVD+R? That situation was a little different…it was a tussle between RECORDABLE formats. This format fight has much more at stake, because I find it hard to believe that consumer DVD’s and products will be released on BOTH BD and HD DVD formats.

In related news, Twentieth Century Fox has announced that it release on Blu-ray disc “new films, TV programming and other titles from Fox’s library of film and television programming when Blu-ray hardware launches in North America, Japan, and Europe.”

[Verbatim link]
[Twentieth Century Fox link]