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NEC's booth at CeBIT 2005 was big enough to show all NEC products

Apart from the projectors, laptops, and LCD-TVs, we were focused at the optical storage drives, NEC demonstrated working HD DVD drives with High Definition content!

You should expect NEC HD DVD-ROM drive around September of 2005 with a retail price of....$500! This drive can read CD, DVD and of course HD DVD media. At the end of 2005, users can expect a PC HD DVD-R burner, at similar price range of $500. Hopefully by middle of 2006, the PC drives will have much lower retail prices so more users can afford to buy them. NEC PC HD DVD drives will include mostly components from NEC Electronics, while NEC may user at limited quantities Sanyo's pickups.

NEC displayed the major differences between DVD and HD DVD formats:

,while a more detailed information can be found below:

NEC also demonstrated, HD DVD-R, HD DVD-RW media:

and HD DVD OPU and HD DVD SLI chipsets: