"Kevin Collins, senior program manager at Microsoft, demonstrated the HD DVD drive, which he said is scheduled to hit store shelves for the upcoming holiday shopping season, to attendees of the DVD Forum here," reports CNet.
"The device -- about the size of a hardback book -- played "The Phantom of the Opera" as Collins pulled up a menu bar to display a few of its navigation and interactive features that can be called up on screen while a movie is playing. Collins said Microsoft's HD DVD drive will be among the least expensive of the HD DVD players, but he declined to disclose the drive's retail price."
Comment: The DVD Forum, founded in 1995, is the open industry organisation that defines and publishes DVD formats and specifcations, and that backed the creation and adoption of the extended DVD format called HD DVD.
