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Blu-Ray/Standard DVD Hybrids Planned
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)"
I know that the one advancement any succesor to the DVD would want to make is in memory, but isn't 31 gigs too much? That's 13 hours of standard television. How could you possibly deal with so much on one disc? I personally like the HD-DVDs. Blu-ray should start advancing in the size, not the memory.
Back in my day, we watched T.V. by candlelight.
American fear mongering is killing american research. Traditionally America has embraced emigrants from other countries seeking 'liberty' in the USA.
It would be naive to believe that the USA always embraced emigrants. Though the current political situation in the USA dicourages sharing of information that is desirable in an International Academic community... it is also making it more difficult for students to study in the USA.
But why should I care?
Oh, and I don't think we should patent anything anyhow... the only winners with patenting are the lawyers. If a company doesn't want to pay loyalties to some company in China, then don't try and patent it.. then they won't realise its worth patenting and won't realise you are making a patent infringement.