[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Posted earlier:

Japan's Ricoh finds way of reading both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats - report

Not sure whether it can handle the TDK 8 layer 200 Gigabyte disc.

[Gay State Conservative]

Went to Best Buy the other day and almost pulled the trigger on HD DVD.I also saw the Blue Ray,but there's no way I pay $1000 for one.

If they come out with a combo player that's decently priced I'll probably go with it.Titles available will also be important to me.

[Publius6961]

The HD-DVD/Blu-ray battle has consumers up in arms.

Not this consumer...

I am happily exploring my DVD recorder that satisfies all my needs for the next few years.
They can sort things out in the meantime.

Does not affect me in the slightest.

[A CA Guy]

Doesn't make any sense, you throw a 480P disk into an up scaling DVD player and with the movies you get darn close to HD now.

I think it is just a new thing they are trying to sell you that will have lots of security stuff more so in it for them to make all the prior hardware you paid thousands for garbage.

I'm not getting the stuff.

[Dinsdale]

I would like to remind all freepers that SONY corp, the backers of Beta-ray, is the same bunch of criminals that shipped millions of audio CDs infected with computer damaging software that automatically installed itself on PCs.

Until and unless the executives at Sony and Sony USA are held criminally responsible for this I will never send another penny to SONY or any affiliate of SONY.

I recommend all freepers adopt the same policy.