Warner introduced a unique DVD hybrid solution

Warner Home Video has just announced on April 26 that Warner is preparing to release a hybrid DVD between regular DVD and high-definition DVD HD-DVD.

The first title was played on HD-DVD hybrid DVDs

This hybrid DVD can be played on today's popular DVD players with the same quality as regular DVDs, but when it is played on HD-DVD players, image and sound quality is achieved. supper.

This is essentially a 2-sided DVD. On the one hand is recorded with normal DVD technology, while the other side is recorded with the new HD-DVD technology with the recording capacity of up to 15 GB.

The hybrid disc will be officially released on May 9 with the first title of the movie, "Rumor Has It," starring Jennifer Anniston and Kevin Kostner. Its price when it comes to movie content is probably not cheap, up to US $ 40 per disc, more expensive than US $ 10 per disc when played on HD-DVD singles, but it is clearly a level of technological excellence. and convenience is indisputable.

Analysts say that this is a perfect technology intermediate solution, making HD-DVD disk format more powerful against the rival Blu-ray DVD format that is currently very prominent, and here. It is also a solution to help hundreds of millions of DVD players in the world today not to 'retire premature' when high definition DVD formats are becoming more and more popular.

Some companies are also trying to find technological measures to temporarily reconcile between these two latest high-definition DVD standards, especially in case there is no standard capable of going to the final victory. and. Samsung seems to be one of the companies that has achieved a quite effective solution by preparing a high-definition DVD player that can read both HD DVD and Blu-Ray DVD formats.

HOANG HAI