A new era in video technology debuted in stores on April 18, and true to Crawford's instinct, the HD-DVD unit from Toshiba sold out within a couple of days - despite its $500 price tag.
High-definition DVDs look like the standard DVDs that film buffs rent at the neighborhood video store but they display a much better picture - six times the definition, detail and visual information of a regular disc.
That's because the new discs hold a lot more digital data - the difference between about 9 gigabytes on a regular DVD versus up to 50 GBs on a high definition disc.