Posted by Aaron J. Bossig on 01/14/07 15:00

"CJ" <cjmartin04@verizon.net> wrote in news:Nsjqh.260$AG6.249@trnddc06:

>> The common sense solution is a dual drive player. Since they are
>> essentially multimedia computers that have a single function at
>> present, adding a second drive mech would seem to me to be (or would
>> have been) the cheapest "get it on the market now" solution.
>
> I don't know much about the LG player specifics, but was this not what
> they were doing? Including an HD-DVD drive and a Blu-Ray drive in one
> player? You're right, that would be the simplest solution, and IMO
> probably the cheapest solution as well.

Kinda, yeah, but it's basically a BluRay drive that's had HD-DVD capability
shoehorned into it, not a drive that can hande both formats natively.
There are some HD-DVD functions that had to be left off because of this.


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Aaron J. Bossig

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