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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. Re:Not such a huge leap forward by DJStealth · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I have an HDTV and use Video on Demand, hardly close to HDTV quality, and not even close to DVD quality. The system as is requires a lot of bandwidth as you could have a million customers all wanting to watch 20 different shows, and each at a different spot. I think the quality may even be lower than regular digital TV.

    For now, I generally stick to watching movies on the HDTV channels or on DVD. Those of you who have seen HDTV will vouch that there is a huge difference between DVD and HDTV quality picture.

    (Has anyone actually tested those new DVD players that upsample the video to 1080i? Does that really improve the picture quality over the TV doing its own internal upsampling?)