A few questions for HD-DVD fans

[davygee]

TheBigFatJ said:

davygee said:

HD-DVD bring out 51Gb and then BR bring out 100Gb.

Has it even been shown that all BD players can read 4 layer BD media? It seems quite unlikely. The vast majority of BD movies right now are 25GB. What I'm talking about is Toshiba proving all of their HD-DVD players can read 3-layer 51GB media, so movies that need extra storage could use them. And it suggests that the future of the medium is 51GB discs.

But quibbles about storage aside, since they're mostly insignificant, there isn't a hell of a lot of reason to really prefer one format over the other. As you've said, it comes down to personal taste about the movies themselves. And all movies are available via DVD -- since optical media is how I get a tiny fraction of my HD content I don't mind watching some movies in DVD and some in high definition. If I had cable, which has universally horrible HD quality, it might matter more to me. It might matter enough to connect both a BD and HD-DVD player to my home theatre setup, but I certainly wouldn't pay more than $100 for the privilege of a few extra HD discs.

And right now, even if I had a BD player (only) laying around I wouldn't bother putting it in my home theatre system simply because I don't need more clutter there and I'm saving a little room for another console as soon as I'm convinced to buy one.

Have Toshiba proven that their players can read 51Gb discs?