JVC's combination Blu-ray/DVD disc
posted December 24th 2004 1:57PM
Oh, come on now, you didn't honestly think that the peeps behind the Blu-ray disc were going to let Toshiba and
Memory-Tech get away with making an HD-DVD that was backwards
compatible with regular DVD players, did you? This is war, and since every attack requires a counter-attack, JVC
has stepped up to the plate and developed a 33.5GB optical disc that squeezes in both a 25GB layer of Blu-ray and an
8.5GB DVD dual-layer that can be read by a standard DVD player. So just like with that backwards-compatible HD-DVD that
was announced a few weeks back, these discs will also be able to store a high-def version of a film for playback on a
Blu-ray player and a standard-definition version so you can watch it on the DVD player you have now.
[Via Akihabara News]
This is so much more useful than the Toshiba combo disc that came out. If I recall correctly the Toshiba disc only held 4.5 gb on its DVD layer, which almost useless for movies these days considering that almost all the movies being released are dual layer. Also the HD DVD layer had somewhere around 15 gb. So, once again, Blu-Ray has an edge technologically.
wow, this is pretty amazing stuff
Great. Now I can buy ONE Movieplayer and have both discs compatable. PS3 is not dead afterall.