Universal to release "flipper combos" on Blu-ray

[Hep]

Count me in with those who will not be supporting BD flipper discs. I dislike the idea for most of the reasons mentioned, including the inability to use the DVD as a disc for my daughter while protecting my BDs separately.

Apart from that, I have another very specific (and functional) reason for being unable to support the format: my Sony BD changer. In the DVD days, the only discs I wasn't able to load/play in my DVD changer were DVD flipper discs; they are thicker than a regular disc and create havoc with the mechanism. Thankfully, with DVD it was a simple matter of burning the disc onto a DVD-R and loading those in the player. That solution is not available/practical with BD, and therefore I will not be able to support this format.

It will be really hard to resist if I love the movie, but I will get by with renting the disc and playing in the PS3. If Universal is reading these threads, you can put another tick in the lost customer box.