I think that this a great idea. Once Blu-Ray dies (and it will when real 4k hi-def comes out in a few years), we'll be able to play the SD layer on 4k players. There's no way that the 4k players will pay licensing fees to play discs that currently have less than 10% of the marketplace.
If HD DVD had used hybrid discs for all of their releases, it would be the only HD disc format around now. Sadly, that didn't happen.
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I think that this a great idea. Once Blu-Ray dies (and it will when real 4k hi-def comes out in a few years), we'll be able to play the SD layer on 4k players. There's no way that the 4k players will pay licensing fees to play discs that currently have less than 10% of the marketplace.
If HD DVD had used hybrid discs for all of their releases, it would be the only HD disc format around now. Sadly, that didn't happen.
Roberta
Sorry Roberta, but 4k players won't be able to play the SD layer because 4k is not going to be optical.
If HD DVD had done ANY marketing things might be different, but they didn't do anything notable that I can recall, so we've got Blu instead.
Hybrid BD25 + DVD9 = STUPID. Hopefully the research will yield some other fruit because this thing isn't going anywhere.