A Unified Standard for High-Density Digital Discs

February 1996 / Editors' Choice Awards / 1995 Editors' Choice Awards: Awards of Excellence / A Unified Standard for High-Density Digital Discs

We were prepared for another VHS/Betamax battle where everyone loses. But thanks to the Hollywood Video Disc Advisory Group and the Computer Industry Technical Working Group (both of which refused to endorse either of the two competing standards for a new digital-disc format), the Multimedia CD backed by Sony and Philips has merged with the Toshiba/Time-Warner Super Density disc. We now have a single standard format for storing a 135-minute movie, with Dolby sound and subtitles, on a single CD side.

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