| redisrad said: both dvd +/- r hold the same space and the disc were simular but bluray and hdvd are a little more different. bluray hold more room and has more support. most of these people do not want to buy an hd dvd player so they can watch all movie. and a dual player will take a lot longer to drop inprice, this mean we would have to wait longer. |
CDs also hold less space than DVDs and my drive can read both. The physical structure between CDs, CD-R(W)s, DVDs, DVD+-R(W)s, DVD-RAMs are all different enough, and my drive can still read them all. An HD-DVD drive reads all of the above, two different physical structures of HD-DVD discs, maybe even recordables. A Bluray one definitely reads its recordables, besides the above bunch. Dual format players are definitely feasible (they exist), and the thing that makes them currently half-assed is software. They're expensive because it wasn't in most manufacturers best interest to manufacture them. But I'm betting in the near future it will be (e.g., for Toshiba: if you can't beat them, join them).
And, really. Bluray just basically "won" the format war. Bluray fans don't get to bitch that "most of these people do not want to buy an hd dvd player so they can watch all movie". No, HD DVD early adopters that got screwed are the ones that get to say they don't want to buy yet another player just to watch any movies at all, and on top of that, be forced to repurchase all their current movies if they want to watch them in the near future, after HD DVD just rolls over and dies like some of you seem to want.
Only in the mind of a fanboy would dual format players be detrimental to the market. After these companies screwed up getting together and making one format, after they both pushed for getting millions of players in the hands of consumers, packaging dozens of movies with those deals, dual format is the best answer to a lot of people. And, in particular, HD DVD dropping from the face of the earth isn't the answer to any of those people.
Not to me though. I own neither, so I could care less really. With every move since the war started the players that really interest me (those brandless ones that play every damn thing you throw at them, including data in every format known to man, in every storage medium they can possibly read) look further and further. But I'll just buy an upscaling DVD one, and be done with it.
