hothardware.com — The real question is why did it take so long to get here? There's a fair chance that many consumers would have bought into BD earlier had these Flipper discs been readily available. Going from one standard to another is made all that much easier with something like this on the shelves...
Apr 16, 2010 View in Crawl 4
mrmt32Apr 17, 2010
There are places you can download full blu-ray rips (without further compression or removal of extras), they are 30GB+ but with a decent internet speed don't take that long to download...
funkariusApr 17, 2010
I hate flipper discs. I also hate George Lucas.
sagimewtwoApr 17, 2010
I completely hated the flipper discs that Universal did for HD-DVD, it gave them a reason to charge $10-20 more for a high-def movie than a normal HD-only disc movie. I remember wanting to get Children of Men on HD-DVD when it came out but Universal charged nearly $50 for it cause of the "convenience" of having both DVD and HD-DVD on the same disc.Plus, I kinda want to have the disc art on one side anyway. I hated the same flipper discs for DVDs when they packed in both letterboxed and widescreen versions of the same movie on the same disc.It might not be so bad for some people who want that convenience, as long as Universal doesn't do their usual customer raping with higher prices.
darkstar3333Apr 17, 2010
I would prefer the double disc inclusion too. Whenever I bring home a new Bluray I active the digital copy (which is useless in most cases) and then start up the torrent for the DVD image.The only thing they are preventing is me having to look at there advertisements on the SD copy.
zenmojoApr 17, 2010
This forward thinking consumer bought a videogame last night, then had to wait three to four hours for that s**t to download so he can play it in 1080p.Then when he decided to play a PS3 game in the meantime, he had to update his PS3 and the game he wanted to play. So he went to sleep.f**k that s**t.
bonestampApr 17, 2010
Now you can look forward to her phone call when it doesn't work because she put the blu-ray side down. They should put "This side up for blu-ray" on the inner ring of the disc to avoid this inevitable annoyance.