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Posted by Doug Jacobs on 10/16/07 20:34
Tarkus <karnevil9@atlantabraves.net> wrote:
> Doug Jacobs wrote:
> >
> > * More likely than not, we'll see hybrid or combo players before too
> > long. While this solves the consumer's conndrum of choosing between, say,
> > Transformers and Pirates, it basically turns the HD video market into the
> > same mess that is today's burnable DVD market.
> What's so messy about today's burnable DVD market?
You've got DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and then dual-layer variations of
all of those.
Some devices can only play DVD-R(W)s, whereas some can only play DVD+R(W)s.
Which is which? Well, you won't know until you burn yourself a few
coasters!
Yeah, that's a consumer friendly solution! Let's release 2 formats that do
the same thing, with no discernable differences to the consumer, and let
them "choose" a winner! Oh wait, here's a multi-format burner that can
handle both formats! So now both formats can "survive" but individual
manfuacturers are still free to decide which format their devices will
support. Yeah, that's a good win-win solution for everyone! Well, except
for the consumer.
Meanwhile, a CDR is a CDR is a CDR. There's none of this stupidity of
having 2 identical, but incompatible, formats.
Going forward, do you see the HD formats getting any easier? We'll have
Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray-R, Blu-Ray-RW and its variations for multi-layers, then
we'll have HD-DVD, HD-DVD-R, HD-DVD-RW and its own variations for its
multilayered discs.
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It's not broken. It's...advanced.
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