Toshiba Going After Blu-ray?

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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Re:Hello?

[SuperKendall]

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.