Re: "Star Trek - Season 2" on HD DVD has been canceled

"Mac Breck" <macthevorlon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>je.s.te.r@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>>
>> Won't happen.  The dual mode disc was part of the HD-DVD spec.  That
>> won't happen w/ Blu-Ray.
>
>It shouldn't be part of *any* spec.  Couldn't they make flipper discs of
>anything, SD/Blu-Ray, HD-DVD/Blu-Ray, HD-DVD/SD?  The spec should only
>apply to the Blu-Ray side, shouldn't it?  Why does the Blu-Ray player
>care what's on the side it's not reading, be it nothing, a label or
>actual content (SD or HD-DVD)?

The HD-DVD spec was designed with flipper discs in mind, blu-ray
wasn't.  I believe Warner Bros looked into the feasibility of making
blu-ray flippers and decided it wasn't technically/financially viable.