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- Mpwns, on 12/22/2008, -2/+201so i see they found a way to raise the price of dvds.
- floridiot2, on 12/22/2008, -10/+146***** this. Where was my DVD/VHS combo??
- akaCHUCKTAYLORR, on 12/21/2008, -7/+68i've been waiting for something like this for a while. nicely done japan
- BullHunter, on 12/21/2008, -6/+57Bring it on. We've come a long way from those 5 1/4 floppy disks
- Dested, on 12/22/2008, -0/+41We're not the market.
- Morac, on 12/22/2008, -0/+33Reading some of these comments, it's amazing how dense some people are. Either that or they aren't reading the article. A Hybrid Blu-Ray / DVD disk is exactly what it sounds like. It doesn't let DVD players play Blu-Ray movies. It combines a DVD and Blu-Ray onto one disk.
As to why something like is useful? Well studios would only need to print one disk, thereby saving the cost of printing on both DVD and Blu-Ray. The hybrid disks could then be read in either Blu-Ray players (as a Blu-Ray disk) or DVD players (as a DVD disk). It would also make renting through Netflix simpler since you wouldn't need to specify whether you wanted a DVD or a Blu-ray disk, Netflix would send you "both."
I fail to see what's so hard to understand about this. - badqat, on 12/22/2008, -2/+33More apt they want you to buy the blu-ray and you get the DVD for "free".
- chaoswings, on 12/22/2008, -1/+25I do for archive purposes. I buy the dual layer ones.
- IllBeBack, on 12/22/2008, -2/+24As long as we're still using spinning disks, we haven't come very far yet.
- KibibyteBrain, on 12/22/2008, -1/+21This is a disc, not a player.
- inactive, on 12/22/2008, -18/+38Wow, just like many HD DVDs had long ago.
I'm sure glad the cheaper, easier to produce, more DRM consumer friendly, tightly speced media format got killed so we could finally get this!!! - solid12345, on 12/22/2008, -2/+21I can definitely tell digg is overrun by morons and teenagers as it is apparent no one read even the headline paragraph much less the article.
- nipterink, on 12/22/2008, -3/+22this isn't for people who only have dvd players. it's for those who have blu rays and when they go to a friends house with a new movie, they don't have to worry about him/her having a blu ray player as well.
- EvilFerret, on 12/22/2008, -6/+23I'm buzzing pretty good so I'm a bit confused. Is this basically saying the Blu-ray discs are going to also include an SD format for regular DVD players? It would be a nice concept for those are are holding off on buying a Blu-Ray player, but not too many people are going to say "Hmm...Iron Man on DVD for $15, or on Blu-Ray/DVD for $35 bucks.... I plan on buying a Blu-ray player next year so it would save the hassle of buying it again." They're always going to go for the cheapest solution. I've rented a few Blu-Ray movies that also included the DVD in the case as well, but it just seems pointless.
- smartguy4932, on 12/22/2008, -0/+17DON'T COPY THAT FLOPPY!
- inactive, on 12/22/2008, -1/+18The best part is that it will cost the same as buying the BR and the DVD separately.
- cthellis, on 12/22/2008, -0/+15***** that. Laserdisc/Betamax!
- Barackalypse, on 12/22/2008, -0/+14I wish someone would solve Blu-ray's actual problem, discs that cost $5-10 more than the DVD version of the film and players that cost $100-200 more.
- satori3000, on 12/22/2008, -2/+16oh great, an excuse to charge me yet more for a blu-ray disk
- PandarenLord, on 12/22/2008, -0/+14You only just noticed?
- gamabunta, on 12/22/2008, -0/+14wow.
- dalesmatrix, on 12/22/2008, -0/+13Thats cool, I'd like to buy blurays and play them on my DVD player, then get the bonus of hidef version if and when I get a bluray player. Sounds like win win to me.
- Sethbacca, on 12/22/2008, -1/+14Heh you're funny, I still regularly watch movies on both formats and wouldn't say that the HD DVD suffers any deficiencies at all. For a long time I preferred HD DVD, but blu-ray won and I have moved on. I still buy any movies that were released on HD-DVD on that format though as it tends to be so much cheaper at this point. You're probably one of those people that can take the placebo and feel like it's working for you though. I gotcha :)
- Mizzark, on 12/22/2008, -2/+15Thats what she said.
- Xihix, on 12/22/2008, -1/+12I think this won't be good. Some HDDVD's had this, and the quality of the HD side seemed a bit lower than the average 1080p movie. I hope this doesn't suffer the same fate.
- TWiThead, on 12/22/2008, -0/+11The HD DVD camp implemented the much simpler (and arguably better) solution of a double-sided disc (DVD on one side, HD DVD on the other). Unlike the method described in the article, this was 100% compliant with both formats' specifications. (The Blu-ray/DVD hybrid disc does not fully meet the DVD format's specifications, so it cannot be advertised as a "DVD" and is incompatible with some DVD players.)
And yeah, it's unfortunate that the victorious format was determined through backroom corporate deals (which, to be fair, both camps sought) instead of consumer preference. - WELLDOITLIVE, on 12/22/2008, -0/+10I would just have my friends always come to my place for movies in that case ;) If I have a nice HD setup it kinda kills it watching that new copy of The Dark Knight at your friend's place on his 23" tube TV and mono speaker.
- rkho, on 12/22/2008, -5/+15How aboot a Blu-Ray drive in my MacBook Pro, eh? eh?
- akaCHUCKTAYLORR, on 12/22/2008, -0/+10I will buy more blu-ray because of this..
- PrometheusBorn, on 12/22/2008, -1/+10 By the time something like this would catch on, it will be at LEAST a year. Already BD players are <$200, next year they'll be down near $100.
I'm not going to pay extra for this if I can spend a few bucks on a BD player for my bedroom. The studios have no motivation to spend the extra money unless they can get it back in return.
This is 2 years too late. 2 years ago when BD players were $800+, it would make sense for those who wanted both forward and backward compatibility. Not anymore. - Avaseal, on 12/22/2008, -1/+10what the hell? unless your fingers are coated in ***** diamond dust you shouldn't have any read problems due to user handling. It has a scratch-resistant coating so you could swipe a Brillo pad across a blu-ray and (most times!) it will not even damage the bottom side of the disc. Wipe the finger prints off with your shirt, god damn son.
- 1807, on 12/22/2008, -0/+9except that they never used the full storage space on a Blu-Ray for a single movie and actually, it's been proven by dvd's that came out on both formats that they were identical.
- JigoroKano, on 12/22/2008, -2/+11No high density optical format is going to be able to read through smudges. Just be happy that BD discs don't scratch and ruin as bad as HDDVD's did.
- KibibyteBrain, on 12/22/2008, -0/+9This is good news for people in the high tech lifestyle, who may have a blu-ray player but would like to retain the right to rip and convert their content. Because DVD is a done deal, that means you only need to buy one disc and are certain to have something to fall back on.
- Blindlabel, on 12/22/2008, -0/+9Won't this drive the price of Blu-Ray down? It'll eliminate the need for 2 different formats and reduce production cost.
- inactive, on 12/22/2008, -4/+12dude you're kinda cool for buzzing pretty good
- punkcat, on 12/22/2008, -0/+8Damn it Jim, read the article.
- relay2005, on 12/22/2008, -4/+12Funny how the HD-DVD standard already had this....but everyone was convinced that Blu-Ray was better. Oh by the way be careful here because the players you buy now better have the ability to upgrade later.....or else this is meaningless.
- inactive, on 12/22/2008, -2/+911/10ths is a fraction.
- BirdCatcher, on 12/22/2008, -0/+7RTFA, Hybrid BDs are compatible with DVD players. BD players have always been able to read DVDs.
- AdmiralAcbar, on 12/22/2008, -1/+8FSM, I wish I could digg you more than once...
- tendonut, on 12/22/2008, -0/+6I really don't see this being applied in the gaming world at all. This is purely for people like me who have a Blu-Ray player, but want to watch the movie in other rooms in the house/friends houses.
- lolfantastic, on 12/22/2008, -0/+6I've still got a 5 1/4 floppy.
- jerstud56, on 12/22/2008, -1/+7Lol. And that never gets old. I love it.
- inactive, on 12/22/2008, -0/+6Many can. These discs will work in either play though.
- crowbar77, on 12/22/2008, -0/+6The picture quality was identical, actual in some cases hd dvd was better since the early blu ray's used mpeg-2. Sound quality wise, it would be basically impossible to tell the difference between something like dts-ma and uncompressed.
- tendonut, on 12/22/2008, -0/+6I fail to see how this will help that at all.
- themastersb, on 12/22/2008, -1/+7So far the only reason Blu-ray isn't catching on is because it's so damn expensive still.
- KibibyteBrain, on 12/22/2008, -0/+5In theory, the same technology could be used to implant an HD-DVD layer, but I wouldn't hold your breath.
- namelessXsilent, on 12/22/2008, -0/+5There is no way this is bad. HD-DVD combo discs were great. Blu-ray players are expensive, but pretty much everything now plays dvds. I dont have a blu-ray player in every room so i could just flip the disc and play the dvd in my dusty original xbox in my room.
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