Panasonic and HP fall in love, produce truce on recordable DVD and alliance on Blu-ray

You're still going to have to deal with all those different conflicting recordable DVD formats, but HP and Panasonic have managed to come together to increase the peace and bring just a little more harmony to this fractured world of ours. Here's the scoop: Panasonic, which until now had been firmly ensconced in the DVD-R camp, has agreed to add DVD+R/RW to their standalone DVD recorders, and in exchange HP has committed to supporting DVD-RAM in their PCs. A small step forward, but since DVD is more or less on its way out (or at least on its way to being replaced by a higher capacity optical disc), the potentially more significant news is that the two companies have forged an alliance to further Blu-ray, with HP planning to add Blu-ray Disc burners to their PCs.