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Blue-Laser DVD Formats Wars

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday May 13, 2003 @07:32AM from the can't-we-all-just-get-along dept.

killmore notes a story running on ZDNet talking about incompatible blue laser formats of Blue-Laser DVDs which can store 36GB of data. The new format is from Toshiba & NEC and boasts backwards compatibility with the current standards for DVDs.

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Re:A crazy idea by xluap · 2003-05-13 08:49 · Score: 3, Informative

An empty disk allready has tracks on it which are followed by the laser when writing. Those track are different for different media, so you cannot write a cd-r format to a dvd-r.