Will Blu Ray Play HD Discs?
Blu ray and HD DVD are fighting it out to replace the standard DVD. mighty research and development has gone into creating each format and various industry giants are adopting one or the other to effect into their products.
Sony and Panasonic are two titanic consumer electronics companies that are going with Blu-ray. All their products will exhaust the blu-ray technology.
Toshiba and NEC are supporting HD DVD and all their products will exercise HD DVD technology.
In terms of game consoles, the Sony Playstation 3 will expend blu-ray and the Xbox from Microsoft will expend HD DVD.
All these products will have backwards compatibility whereby they will be able to player the standard DVD’s. However, they will not play the competitors format of disc storage. Thus blu-ray will not be able to play HD disks and vice versa.
The truth is that many spacious companies have so distinguished money invested in their products, that they would want to seek the opposition fail, so the last thing they will be doing is making them compatible.
Having said this, Pioneer and LG made an announcement that they would be producing a dual blu-ray/HD DVD player. This will no doubt feature two individual readers, one for blu-ray and one for HD DVD. NEC have also recently announced that they are creating a chip that can be old-fashioned as the processor late a universal player that will be able to play both blu-ray and HD DVD’s. So things are happening, but you may have to wait a few years before you witness products on the shelves and they might be expensive to launch with.
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