Posted by Henry Padilla on 12/24/14 11:29

"AnthonyR" <nomail@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> "Henry Padilla" <padillah@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Looks like WB is going to back Blu-Ray. This will probably tip the
>> scales on HD-DVD.
>>
>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9610452/
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>> MS has got to be ready to strangle someone.
>>
>> Tom P.
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> I think it's still too early to tell...but if current dvd disc can be
> viewed in the new HD-DVD machines then I think that will be enough an
> advantage to convince owners of current large dvd disc collections to buy
> a new HD-DVD system, rather than a new machine and have two incompatible
> dvd collections and 2 machines in their system.
>
> But then again, maybe Blu-Ray machines will be able to read older dvd
> discs? I thought not but could it be possible?
> And if not, maybe they can sell a unit with two slide out draws, one for
> dvd and one for BD. That might work.
>
> Bigger storage is a good selling point also for me, so it's too close to
> call for me yet.
>
> AnthonyR.


But if none of the studios produce movies on HD-DVD then what good is it?

I have a fine DVD player right now. This would be a separate product. If
it played DVD's too that would be great, but I wouldn't by it just for that
reason. Besides, I heard that some of the hardware manufacturers are
putting the red laser on the other side from the blue and it works fine.
I've even heard that some are trying to get the groves to overlap, but one
will be too big for the blue laser to see and too small for the red laser to
use so you can get both formats on one disk. So maybe they will be
compatible

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