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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. Err, umm, who cares? by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ---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)"

    Its not the amount of space you have, but the content on it..

    When there's Umpteen Million releases of the same movie, who gives a flying fuck?

    Do you wanna buy Lord of the Rings 1?

    LOTR 1 stripped no goodies.
    LOTR 1 some goodies.
    LOTR 1 lots of goodies not found on "some goodies"
    LOTR 1 3 disc crammed set of goodies, but not same goodies as "lots of goodies"

    (REPEAT LOTR 2, LOTR 3)

    LOTR COMPLETE BASIC BOXED SET
    LOTR COMPLETE Booklet BOXED SET
    LOTR COMPLETE (no booklet) 9 DVD set
    LOTR SUPER-COMPLETE 12 DVD set with T-Shirt
    LOTR SUPER-DUPER-ABSOLUTELY-COMPLETE Boxed SET
    LOTR Extras not found on "SUPER-DUPER-ABSOLUTELY-COMPLETE" Boxed set.

    Now tell me.. Will the Blu-disc technology make Movie producers from stop making this many releases to bilk buyers into buying extras after extras?

    Some reason, I dont think it will....

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