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Broadcom's Treaty In the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD War

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the everyone-holding-hands dept.

eldavojohn writes "For a while there, I didn't know what to buy. Blu-Ray or HD-DVD? Which would be the leader? Only a fool would buy discs of the technology that would be the next Betamax. Fortunately, my dilemma has been solved by Broadcom. From the article: 'Consumer and communications chip supplier Broadcom Corp. Thurs. (Nov. 9) introduced what the company labeled the first single-chip solution to support both Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD standards.' I guess I'll just wait until I can get a player that will play them both."

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  1. Pr0n by eldavojohn · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For those of you who claimed that the porn industry would decide this war (as was speculated in the beta max/VHS war), they've decided to choose both technologies. So that is no longer really the deciding factor. Are we going to see movies and studios side with the separate technology and the consumer simply use both?

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    My work here is dung.
  2. Ricoh's has developed a laser... by ajayrockrock · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ricoh has developed a laser that can read both formats too. I'm sure we'll see hybrid players sometime next year.

    --Ajay