Two alliances in Taiwan have jointly presented a red-ray high-definition optical disc standard called FVD, or Forward Versatile Disc. FVD can contain 5.4 - 6GB on a single layer, and 9.8 - 11GB on two layers. At those kind of capacities it can’t be using MPEG2 to store HD content - Microsoft’s WMV9 and WMA9 are the two compression schemes in use.

One of the main advantages of FVD over competing formats is price. The players and content will be sold for significantly cheaper than competing Blu-ray and HD-DVD products.

At the end of last year there were a lot of press releases about how volume production of FVD players would begin soon. We still haven’t seen any press releases about it actually happening. We wait!

Link: DVD-Recordable.org
Link: SatelliteGuys.US
Link: The Inquirer