Toshiba has announced that its dual-layer HD-DVD was approved at a September 14th meeting of the DVD Forum’s Steering Committee. The newly approved discs hold up to 30GB of data, putting them over Sony’s Blu-ray which has a capacity of 25GB. However, the two -layer version of Blu-ray still holds more than Toshiba’s dual-layer disc with a 50GB storage capacity.

Memory-Tech Corporation and Toshiba announced that they have jointly developed a dual-layer ROM (read-only) disc that can store content in both the HD DVD and DVD formats.