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Sony and Panasonic today that the jointly developed AVCHD format for recording HD video to traditional DVD discs will be expanded to include flash-memory cards and hard-disk drives. The AVCHD format uses the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 codec to record 1,080i and 720p high-definition video to standard 8cm DVD discs. Panasonic had initially announced, separately, that it was working on a variant of the codec for recording HD video to flash-memory cards. Today’s announcement moves Sony into the flash-memory camp and commits the companies to developing a hard-disk-drive version of the format as well.

According to a joint statement, both companies are “extensively” promoting the new format throughout the industry and have won support from Canon, Pioneer, Samsung, Sharp, Cyberlink, InterVideo, Nero AG, Sonic Solutions and Ulead Systems.

The yet no word if this format will be in you US, but it would obviously be nice if it was a universal format. Are you just fed up with format wars or do you rather the formats fight it out so the ‘best’ one may win?

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