Combo discs not abandoned by WB for HD DVD

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Originally Posted by lokus

I personally don't see what is bad about a combo. You ensure that for the time being you have a movie that will play on all players that you own. What is so bad about that?

On general principle I can't stand two-sided discs. Brings back flashbacks to the early days of DVD when flippers were common - widescreen on one side, standard on the other. Or worse... watch the first half of the movie and then have to take the disk out and flip it for the second half.

Not only that, I hated having to examine the fine print by the hub hole to read if the side was "side A" or "widescreen". Especially when the lights are dimmed down for watching movies. And don't get me started on having to keep both sides fingerprint free...

Whenever I rewatch one of my older DVD's (not everything has been released in blu yet) that use two sided media it makes me very glad dvd evolved beyond that point.

Instead of evolving and moving forward, HD-DVD has devolved back 10 years to "flippers" to produce their combos. (I am sure this is part of the frustration from the HD-DVD side as they now have discs that are visually identical to the first generation dvds.)

Just my 2 bits...


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