“At last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Warner revealed its Total HD disc format, which will have Blu-ray and HD DVD transfers on opposite sides of the same disc,” Dennis Sellers reports for Macsimum News.
“The discs will have full dual-layer capacity on both formats, so a ‘fully loaded’ disc would carry a 30GB HD DVD on one side and a 50GB Blu-ray Disc on the other,” Sellers reports.
Sellers reports. “These discs won’t be in production until late 2007. No pricing has been set, but Warner execs claim that the discs won’t cost a lot more to produce than current single format HD discs.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Rainy Day” for the heads up.]
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C’mon, Apple, update DVD Studio Pro so that I can burn Blu-Ray discs!
Am I the only one here? Wasn’t 2005 supposed to be the year of HD?
Hrm. Might be a nice publicity move for Warner, but I don’t think this is terribly useful for the average consumer. What makes more sense is to pay up front for a dual-mode DVD player, then pay lower cost over the years for the media itself.
Doesn’t it seem like everyone wants to sit on the fence with this? There’s such caution, I wonder if there is ever going to be a winner here.
“What makes more sense is to pay up front for a dual-mode DVD player”
No, what makes sense is for the industry to standardize on ONE of the competing protocols and let the Hi Def begin for god sakes.
OH Brother….
I thought the whole point of this nes tech is to put more info on one disk, now they are putting 2 formats on one disk therefore reducing the capacity for each format in half. Why bother??
Reading the article, this guy tries to make you believe that only HD-DVD will play regular DVDs. Both BluRay and HD-DVD plays the older DVDs
good thing there aren’t three competing formats!
So the arguement that BluRay is more expensive than DVD-HD is bogus if they can create this hybrid disk for not a lot more than a regular disk?? WTF, why not just use the higher capcity disk and screw the other one as it really has no advantage.
Hmn, you can retrofit existing DVD equipment to manufacture HD-DVD but you need to buy brand new equipment to manufacture Blu-Ray. So I imagine this will require all new equipment, too.
Blu-ray is my _personal_ choice, because I would like to buy a full TV-series in “as small as possible” box.
Instead of 4 DVDs, you could have 1 Blu-ray disc. won’t happen on a HD-DVD.
//BTW – does anyone know, is Shield film or digital production? will it be available on HD?
This is a joke. Like a VHS & Betamax in one cassette. Just standardize already, will ya? I won’t be buying a player until you do! (Unless I break down and buy a PS3.)
“good thing there aren’t three competing formats!”
There is now!
The most absurd thing I keep reading about (regarding these discs and dual-format players) is how they will help end the hi-def “format war”.
It seems to me the only thing they are going to do is prolong it.
In the long run, content is going to determine which format will win (in the living room at least) and it seems to me that it would take only two annoucements to bring it to an end. Disney and George Lucas to announce that their features will never be released in anything but Blu-ray (or HD-DVD) format. Simplistic? yes, but that would pretty much be the game.
At least until the next new format comes along in a decade or so.
Zzzzzzzzzzz. Both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are stillborn.
i wish these disc wars would end already. Blu-ray is superior. so lets get behind blue-ray!
C’mon, Apple, update DVD Studio Pro so that I can burn Blu-Ray discs!
Am I the only one here? Wasn’t 2005 supposed to be the year of HD?
Reason why I-won’t buy HDTV—- I can’t RECORD the stuff!
NOOO I don’t want a dvr hard disk!!!!! I want HD recordable discs.
You still have to decide on which format player to buy though. You could still lose out. Personaly I’m gonna buy a new standard def DVD Recorder. You can get em for around $150AU. Don’t forget you’ll need a HD tv to go with the new players. It’s an expensive upgrade for technology which will do the same as the old, only in better quality.