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Blu-Ray/HD-DVD Talks End
Last minute talks to unify the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats have failed. Matsushita, owner of the Panasonic brand, has stated 'the market will decide the winner.' From the article: "The two sides held talks last year in the hopes of avoiding a prolonged format battle similar to the one between Betamax and VHS videotapes in the 1980s, knowing that it could discourage consumers from shifting to the advanced discs and stifle the industry's growth. But the talks soon fizzled out, with each side reluctant to establish a format based on the other's disc structure. At stake is the $24 billion home video market and a slice of the personal computer market as PCs will be equipped with Blu-ray or HD DVD optical drives."
The subject pretty much sums it up.
why hasnt this been modded down yet? 4-7 gigs per disk on a HD-DVD? Hell regular DVD's can hold more then that, what has this guy been smoking?
The only reason I care about this shit at all is that I want blu-ray for data on my computer, so that I can do things like store an entire TV series on a single disc. I can fit about 24 or 25 episodes of the average anime series (for example) on a single-layer DVD, which isn't enough :P
Have you considered a 400 GB USB/Firewire hard drive instead?
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.