LG PC Blu-ray/HD-DVD Combo Drive Preview

Recently, LG Electronics began shipping the Super Blu Player, a consumer Blu-ray player that can also play back HD-DVD movies, though some advanced HD-DVD interactive features are missing. Now the company is readying a PC drive that can burn Blu-ray, DVD, and CD discs. It also serves as an HD-DVD ROM drive and, with the right software, can play back HD-DVD movies.

[ITR]

I guess I'll be waiting for the second gen ver of this drive to ship. (est 2008?)

HD-DVD needs better support and BR is only ok.

At least you can play both formats.

[calderra]

By 2008 decent combo players will make the whole format war obsolete anyway. Personally I'm just skipping this one in case (format X) comes along soon. As in Winter 2008 potentially.

[ITR]

Yeah those HD formats that can store 300GB to over 1Terabyte coming in 5 yrs or less.

Kinda scary.

I wouldn't mind a combo format.

[LoydX-mas]

Calderra is right. I think before the fanboys can recover from the wiplash, combo players will have arrived and made this war essentially over.
--People will just need to get used to having 2 dozen logos on the front of their players:(Blu-ray,HD-DVD,DVD +,- ,wr-,wr+,cd,8-track,....)

[ITR]

Hey I can deal with that.
I get the best of both worlds.

[Saint Sony]

Eventually one of the formats wins. It does not look very good that there is no HD-DVD burning option. So points in this combo goes to blu-ray. Which I think will win. What I find a bit odd though is that Blu-ray "should be" more advanced format, but the movies I've seen in blu-ray looks horrible compared to some HD-DVD movies. On the other hand, some looks as good as HD-DVD.

[kewlkat007]

starts to put out combo drives, would this war really matter?

I mean both SONY and TOSHIBA would get their royalties, and shut up. Then MS would pull the best trick out of the hat, a Dual Format Internal drive for the Super Elite console..Ha