Because the HD-DVD drive can only spin at 2x speed, where the DVD drive can spin at 12x speed. So by building in a HD-DVD drive, you're effectively dropping load speeds to 16% of what they could be.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Because the HD-DVD drive can only spin at 2x speed, where the DVD drive can spin at 12x speed. So by building in a HD-DVD drive, you're effectively dropping load speeds to 16% of what they could be.