NEC Ships Hybrid Blu-Ray/HD DVD Chip

[NoStateofMind]

I guess we won't have to use just one or the other. We can use both

 

[Ike0069]

Link?

 

[shabby]

Price?

 

[TheCanuck]

About the same price as single format:

Link

 

[TanisHalfElven]

old news. now we wait for the lens (or something like that) that can read both hd dvd and blue ray

 

[GTaudiophile]

I won't invest in either until there is a combo drive that reads/writes/rewrites both formats for $200 or less.

 

[Auric]

Consumer electronics gear could only be invested in if it could somehow be sold short

I would happily snap up a Blu-ray only burner for $200 now since HD-DVD capacity is relatively small (though HD DVD-RAM may be a compelling reason to go that way). They are already cheaper than UDO but still beyond a justifiable price for me; yet the seeming media price per GB premium over HDDs is really minimal to nil considering independence from device failure (and thus requirement of at least duplicate HDDs). I care less about the retail movie formats but am glad for the universal use of AVC.

 

[TheRyuu]

I'll take a HD-DVD burning+Blueray+DVD-/+R(W)+CD-R+anything I left out for $50.

Until it hits $50 like current DVD-R's models, I ain't going for it.
(call me cheap if you want )

Maby I'll go to $100.
And the drive better be FAST.

 

[NoStateofMind]

Originally posted by: TheCanuck
About the same price as single format:

Link

Thanks for posting the link. WTF happened to mine? Hmmmm.....

 

[SonicIce]

My definition of "shipped" means I am able to buy it today. Not maybe 300,000 by April of '07.