Optware in Tokyo is really hoping that while other companies squabble over HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, their HVD will be available at the end of the year (source). The disk, according to hopes, will support 1 Gb/sec transfer rates and smash everything else in its path.

Latest word is that CMC Fuji Photo, CMC Magnetics and three other companies have jumped in to support Optware's HVD disc. (source)

Sadly, the latest news about this technology is from 2005. I may well be wrong, but the diagrams of this technology look a bit like a scam. The technology alleges to allow red lasers to pass beyond blue-green lasers through different layers. Blu-Ray is so successful because the wavelength of blue laser is smaller than that of red; so how exactly would red pass beyond blue? It should be, I think, the other way around for it to actually work.

Da Programmer, please note that when technology hits a high, lots of fakes jump on board - remember Gizmondo's one-off hand held game player? They made millions upon millions on a bunk product designed only to ride a technology high.