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Blu-Ray/Standard DVD Hybrids Planned

Posted by timothy on from the spy-vs.-spy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Recently stories about hybrid HD-DVD and regular DVDs were in the news. This was supposed to be an advantage for HD-DVD in its battle with Blu-Ray. But that advantage will not exist, as according to this story on PhysOrg, the same technology will be available for Blu-Ray. And it is even better than the HD-DVD solution, since instead of two sided media, it uses a triple layer structure on one side (one layer of 33.5GB for Blu-Ray, then two layers for 9GB of dual layer DVD data)"

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  1. Behold. by Blapto · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now little Timmy can store days of HD porn under the mattress! Oh the march of technology...

    1. Re:Behold. by mattkinabrewmindspri · · Score: 2, Funny
      If history has proven anything, it's that:
      1. Timmy does have porn.
      2. Timmy doesn't care if that porn is illegal.
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  2. Re:Err, umm, who cares? by John+Hasler · · Score: 2, Funny

    About movies? Not me. However, 33.5G is room enough for all of Debian on one disc.

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  3. Excellent by Deternal · · Score: 2, Funny

    This completely negates any reason for the movie companies to:

    1. Increase prices for the new formats since:
      • They can combine the products and thus will not sell fewer units
      • Consumers will, once again be annoyed if they have to decide which format to buy
    2. Try to get consumers to buy the same movie twice, so they can get the BD/HD-DVD enhanced version - it's the same disc, so they will have access to the new parts when they replace their dvd player.

    Of course I'm not too optimistic - this will probably cost up to 10 cents extra a disc and the movie companies will of course use this to raise prices - just like they did twice with DVDs.

    First they'll raise the prices because it's a new format, and the pr will go because it can have more material, and then, just like with DVD's the usefull extra material will only go on more expensive discs with the tag:

    • "Limited Edition"
    • "Special Edition"
    • "Extended Edition"
    • "Deluxe Edition"
    • "Directors Cut Edition"
    • "We Buttfuck You Edition"

    Of course this will be around the same time the MPAA will start blaming all their problems on pirates. Because it's obviously not because theater tickets are 18-30usd and movies are 65-90usd a pop.