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Toshiba Going After Blu-ray?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the deja-what-now dept.

Swifty Nifty has an adventure submitted a link to a story about Toshiba's new High Def Disc Format. No, I'm not kidding — apparently Blu-ray has a new contender. This seems to be intended as a DVD backwards-compatible format, but there's not a lot of detail.

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  1. The REAL Question... by FurtiveGlancer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Will it run on Linux?

    More like, "Who's going to write a backward compatible driver for yet another standard?"

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  2. ISO by Firehed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think that ISO might just be the standard, not just the standards-deciding body. (Hint: also joke, we know that avi is the real standard)

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  3. Re:Hello? by SuperKendall · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You regular take your discs to "Circ City and Best Buy" and play them?

    I would if I were testing something new like Blu-ray burning. After all, you cannot logically buy all the players on the market (or at least it would be somewhat expensive).

    3: So they let you pop in a random disc into a player to see if it works?

    You have never taken a reference DVD or CD of your own into a store to try out equipment before you buy?

    If so, you are an idiot. Or at least someone too ignorant to be talking about what Blu-Ray can or cannot do.

    Store employees don't give a fig what discs you put in for your own trials, and generally encourage it in fact since it may lead to a sale. It's how I've bought audio/video equipment for decades! With CD's I brought in my own burned discs to have a variety of material, and I'd do the same for DVD's if I was testing video in a store.

    The only exception would obviously be porn, then they'd probably stop you right quick.

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