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Posted by Skipai Otter on 10/21/19 11:44
"higgy" <higgyslacker@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Skipai Otter" wrote:
>
>> "Dr zoidberg" <alex@drzoidberg.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:1144426972.064271.113390@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>>> My prediction is that by the time these are a mainstream product with
>>> a decent selection of titles available , dual format players will be
>>> common enough.
>>>
>>> The PS3 will probably give a slight advantage to Blu-ray though
>>>
>> Unless it goes the same way as the UMD format and Blu-ray is left only
>> for games.
>
> UMD has no technical advantage over DVD. It was always a crap idea to use
> UMD for movies - just Sony thinking they could sell eveything twice.
But looking at both formats, just what difference is it going to be with
just 5gb in the beginning. 50gb for Blu-ray and 45gb for HD-DVD. Not much
in the beginning. Mind you, not sure what would happen once 4 or 5 layer
disc's come out but those would become even more expensive at any rates.
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Skipai
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