| davygee said: Have Toshiba proven that their players can read 51Gb discs? |
I'll have to find my source, but I read that they had and the firmware updates recently rolled out supported 51GB discs. It is possible that the first generation players wouldn't get support for it, but there are so few of the first gen players on the market that they could be sent in for an update if necessary -- it would be feasible from a financial and tactical perspective.
The BD camp doesn't really have an answer for it yet and called it a 'publicity stunt'. There are 100GB *writable* BD discs, but nothing more than two-layers in the work in BD players for BD movies. To put it in perspective, the 51GB format has only had preliminary specs approved so far AFAIK with Toshiba announcing it nearly a year ago. So early next year or perhaps even Q2 would probably be the soonest we could hope to see 51GB HD-DVD movies.
