http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/ Engadget Comments for Three's company: Warner patents all-in-one hybrid disc http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/Sep 18th 2006 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/Sep 18th 2006 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/Sep 18th 2006 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/Sep 18th 2006 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/Sep 18th 2006 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/Sep 18th 2006 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/Sep 18th 2006 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/Sep 18th 2006 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/Sep 18th 2006 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/Sep 18th 2006 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/The should just let natural consumer selection dictate a winner. I cant imagine this leaves much room for redundancy or even a decent scratch resistant/protection layer. Not to even get into the cost or much else.... ]]>Sep 18th 2006 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/Sep 18th 2006 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/Sep 18th 2006 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/Sep 18th 2006 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/Sep 18th 2006 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/Sep 18th 2006 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/
I guess that's one of the few benefits to being a LATE adopter -- all the kinks will be worked out by the time I get around to purchasing HD stuff...]]>Sep 18th 2006 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/
Or does the laser just pass on through like a mini-beam of death?

Obviously, since it -doesn't- work that way, this is the best alternative. I wouldn't even mind paying a little extra to get a three-fer-one. An extra five bucks, let's say, woudl be worth it being able to play in my laptop's DVD drive, my PS3, or, my friend's HD-DVD player - assuming you actually have all three devices and want to paly it in all three.

I thought it was silly they were uncompatable to begin with.]]>Sep 18th 2006 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/
I don't know, seems to me like they're trying to re-invent the wheel here. I like the idea, hybrid discs/players are a (relatively) perfect solution...but is Warner really approaching this from the correct angle?

A benefit no one's pointed out yet... buy the disc and you've got the ability to play the movie literally anywhere. On your own Blu-Ray, on your friend's HD-DVD, and on your parent's DVD player. Consumers want ultimate portability... here it is. (Especially if they can bundle an online download for portable devices.)

If it were me at the store looking at a $20 DVD, a $25 Blu-Ray, a $25 HD-DVD, and a $30 hybrid with all formats and a free download... I'd definitely pay the $30.]]>Sep 18th 2006 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/
It's definitely PSWii60. ]]>Sep 18th 2006 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/
The Blu-ray vesus HD-DVD battle is one that has and will continue to hurt consumers in a number of ways, and I really don't see any way for this battle to come to an end until one of the fighters is dead.]]>Sep 18th 2006 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/Sep 18th 2006 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/
as for the person who said something about the hd-dvd/dvd hybrid, im sure that someone has a patient on that technology already, which means that warner brothers would have to pay another liscensing fee to use that. in stead, they've created their own system which in turn they can make money off of by liscensing it out to other companies.]]>Sep 18th 2006 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/Sep 18th 2006 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/
Thing is, I don't see Sony warming up to this anytime soon, as it would offer support to HD DVD.

Also, I have to wonder about licensing.]]>Sep 18th 2006 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/Sep 18th 2006 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/
DVD5/9 + HD-DVD layers on the same side makes sense, but forcing Blu-ray in there seems to be a waste of time. JVC made a Blu-ray-DVD hybrid a long time ago, so why don't you think they persued it? Why would a Blu-ray provider want to pay for the DVD name? They don't want to anymore, which is why most of the companies flocked to Blu-ray intially.

Consumers aren't Corporations. They will pick whichever format suits them best. While HD-DVD is probably the most consumer friendly at this point, I bet some other medium will step on both of their toes in the next 5 years.]]>Sep 18th 2006 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/ "A disc with two data sides and no lable will never make it."

Well, as long as I've been buuing DVDs there have been movies released with standard pan&scan and widescreen on a single two sided disc. True, it's not mainstream, but they haven't flopped so bad that they stopped producing such discs.

"we suppose we'll have to play the game if we don't want to end up buying every title in triplicate."

Ok, here's what you do. Go out and find yourself a mayonaise jar (sans mayonaise). Starting this month, every payday you put $20 in this jar for the next three years. Three years from now you should have nearly $1500 dollars in that jar. Take that money and buy yourself a nice ~30" hi-def TV and a ~~~DVD player. ie a DVD player of whatever ilk wins this format war. In three years, the war will be over (very likely anyway), and the prices for both hi-def TVs and next gen DVD players will be down, and the available library for that format will be up in volume and down in price.

Oh yeah, and during those three years you can continue buying and viewing regular DVDs which work pretty well on the standard TVs 95% of us have...

Just one way of dealing with the so called "format war"...

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This is better news for BluRay than HD-DVD, they need all the help that they can get. Their media has not performed as well as HDDVD and the stand alone players are twice as much as a HDDVD. Yes I know the PS3 will bring that price down but given the reliability issues that people have with PS2 would you seriously want to shorten the life span of your DVD drive by watching movies on it?

]]>Sep 21st 2006 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/STOP THIS HYBRID CANCER FROM DESTROYING SD DVD!!
SAY TO HYBRID!!
OTHERWISE SD DVD WILL HAVE 50% OF ITS QUALITY STOLEN AWAY!!]]>Nov 11th 2006 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/increase in the acquisition of the mineral coltan as a circuit board element. COLTAN is mined in the Congo by child miners, children captured by militia and put into slavery to dig out coltan and other minerals for the world's electronics brands. SONY is the single worst offender of all. ]]>Nov 11th 2006 6:41PM