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DVD Truce Between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the put-down-your-guns dept.

An anonymous reader writes " Reuters is reporting that Toshiba and Sony are in talks about reconciling the two next-generation DVD formats. Ideas floated in the article include a unified DVD arch which could use "Blu-ray's disc structure and HD DVD software technology" (Sony's idea) or "HD DVD disc structure and employing Sony's multi-layer data-recording technology" (Toshiba's idea)"

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  1. The age old question. by rmarll · · Score: 4, Funny

    You got your chocolate in my peanutbutter.

    You got your peanutbutter on my chocolate.

  2. FrankenDVD... by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    FrankenDVD... it was born on a cold slab of stone, when Drs. Sony and Toshiba concurred. Hundreds knew better, thousands said it was unnatural and against nature, millions didn't care as long as they could watch Star Wars: Episode VII, Revenge of the Return of the Imperial Jedi Sith...

    See villagers...

    See Torches...

    See lightning flash and hear thunder roll...

    See the monster fill a small screen near you

    Scream in terror as you re-purchase all your DVD collection, while in a dark sinister lab, the next format is considered...

    RATED: R

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    1. Re:FrankenDVD... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      KRYTEN: Frankenstein was the creator, not the monster. It's a common misconception, held by all truly stupid people.

    2. Re:FrankenDVD... by tm2b · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm pretty sure that should have started with:

      IN A WORLD...

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  3. n-squared? by stevenharman · · Score: 1, Funny

    Uh, wait... so we just went from 2 competing formats (Blu-Ray and HD DVD) to 4 (Blu-Ray, HD DVD, Blu-Ray+HD DVD, and HD DVD+Blu-Ray)? Thats an n-squared rate of growth. Surely someone could come up with something more efficient, along the lines of nLog(n) perhaps?

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    1. Re:n-squared? by omegacentrix · · Score: 1, Funny

      I guess I'm just being picky about it, but from two data points you can't possibly determine n-squared or n*ln n rate of growth. Heck this could simply be linear... pretty soon we'll have Purple-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and maybe even the Death-Ray. =)

  4. A better idea! by erroneus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's have representatives from each side to fight it out to the death! I haven't seen a good death match in a very long time.

  5. Two companies working together? by BlackMesaResearchFac · · Score: 2, Funny

    Vizzini: Inconceivable!

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    1. Re:Two companies working together? by El · · Score: 2, Funny

      You use that word a lot... I do not think it means what you think it means!

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  6. This can only mean one thing.. by McNally · · Score: 5, Funny

    This can only mean one thing.. They've decided to join forces against their common enemy -- the consumer..

  7. Re:They're wasting their time by eggoeater · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...and also in a few (more) years longhorn will be out and be so bloated it'll require the new formats to distribute it.

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  8. Sorry, was that rated R+ or R- ? by Myriad · · Score: 4, Funny
    RATED: R

    Sorry, just to clarify... was that R+ or R-?

    Blockwars: Multiplayer Tetris like game

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    1. Re:Sorry, was that rated R+ or R- ? by ackthpt · · Score: 2, Funny
      RATED: R

      Sorry, just to clarify... was that R+ or R-?

      Actually, having to re-purchase your DVD collection should be Rated: Argh!

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  9. Re:Bah... by n0dnarb · · Score: 2, Funny

    Have you ever tried to cram those little green cubes on a spindle before?

  10. Gimme a blue laser pointer by ryanvm · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fuck the drives - I want one of these blue lasers.

  11. Re:Does format matter? by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't you people know anything?

    The "hard drive" is the big metal boxy thing that sits on or under your desk and you plug your keyboard and mouse and TV into it.

    It also goes by the names "CPU", "processor", "modem", "computer", "box", and "thingy". They all mean the same thing.