The on-going saga between the next evolution in high definition DVDs has been quite fierce, in particular between the Sony-developed Blu-Ray and Toshiba’s HD DVD. Now it seems that a new hybrid disc will extinguish the war between the two rival formats.
Warner Home Video recently announced that a new videodisc named Total HD can be played on both HD DVD and Blu-Ray drives. Thereby render the format wars obsolete.
Barry M. Meyer, the chairman and chief executive of Warner Bros. said in an interview that the company came up with the Total HD disc after concluding that neither Blu-Ray nor HD DVD was going the way of Betamax anytime soon.
“The next best thing is to recognize that there will be two formats and to make that not a negative for the consumer,” Meyer said. “We felt that the most significant constituency for us to satisfy was the consumer first, and the retailer second. The retailer wants to sell hardware and doesn’t want to be forced into stocking two formats for everything. This is ideal for them.”
But will the average consumer make the switch to high definition DVDs over the current and cheaper format available?
Read the CNET article here
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