About HD DVD

What is HD DVD

HD DVD is how your HD TV lives up to its full cinematic potential. Combining the best of HD with the best of DVD, HD DVD brings you:

  • Six times the picture quality of standard formats. Explosionier explosions, pulse-quickenier suspense and more adjectivey everything.
  • Up to 7.1 channels of master-quality lossless surround sound. That’s better than what you hear at your local Cineplex.
  • Exclusive interactive features like picture-in-picture playability, alternate camera angle views, downloadable bonus content and more.1
  • Backwards compatibility. Your HD DVD player plays all your standard DVDs with improved resolution.2

How Does HD DVD Do It?

HD DVD improves powerfully upon the technological foundation of DVD, replacing the red laser reader of a standard DVD player with a blue laser. Because blue lasers scan data using shorter wavelengths than red lasers, manufacturers can store three times more data on an HD DVD disc. That's what allows you to experience the eye-popping 1080p high-def picture, window-shattery surround sound and awesome interactivity that you can get only with HD DVD.

1Interactive features vary depending upon the title. 2Over a digital connection.