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Omac said:
makingmusic476 said:
Omac said:
Scruff7 said:
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Soon the size of the disk will not matter HD DVD's will have 51g on them. The sound for Transformers got rave reviews on HD DVD.


And the BDA is currently testing200 gb quad-layer BD-roms. Neither matters, because current players weren't built to play these discs.

The current sizes discs available for movies is a 30gb dual-layered HD DVD and a 50gb dual-layered BD-Rom.


 The current players for HD DVD will play and use the 51g disks.  The reason I said anything about it, because Blu-ray supporters always talk about the size of the disk matters, even though it is not really so.  But yes they are coming and yes they will be able to play in older players.


There's no confirmation yet as to whether the 51GB discs will play on existing HD DVD players. They're doing "testing", which is pretty ambiguous. Unless you can point to me that this is CONFIRMED. There has been talk about requiring a hardware upgrade as opposed to a firmware upgrade, so it's possible that all existing HD DVD owners are either screwed, or they will not adopt the 51GB discs.