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

Steve Hall wrote:
> "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.

Argh, now I've got to buy both versions separately.

-- 
Mac Breck (KoshN)
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"The Dresden Files" (2007)
Harry Dresden: [re. Bianca] What is it about bad girls?  They lie,
cheat, won't suck your blood even when you beg them to, and for some
reason, no matter how badly they treat us, we still can't walk away.