One More DVD Announcement: High-Definition DVD
Sonic Solutions has announced a technology partnership with RAVISENT Technologies Inc. to bring High-Definition DVD to content developers and consumers for the first time. Called hDVD, the new format expands DVD beyond standard definition video to include any of the 18 ATSC video formats, including 1080i and 720p. RAVISENT's software-based High Definition MPEG encoding and decoding technology will provide secure generation and display of the high-definition content with an internet-enabled user interface, while Sonic's DVD Creator, DVD Fusion and DVDit! authoring applications will be extended to support the high-resolution video streams.