Posted by Geena Phillips on 08/08/06 23:27

Tom wrote:
> Jordan wrote:
>
>>External drive is for movies only, not for games. If they came out with
>>an internal drive that was capable of playing games from HD-DVD we
>>would be screwed.
>>
>
> Screwed unless they decided to offer DVD and HD-DVD versions of games,
> with the DVD version being on multiple discs.
>
> I doubt this scenario though, both retailers and game companies
> wouldn't want the hassle of two media types to deal with.

Yeah, well, neither do consumers, but that hasn't stopped the studios
and hardware manufacturers from sticking us right in the middle of their
stupid HD-DVD/Blu-Ray format war.


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