And now, tackling this from the other direction. Since Blu-ray and HD-DVD pretty much share *everything* except the physical format and menuing system (BD-J vs. iHD), this makes more sense. Broadcom, and others, have chips which support both formats. It is actually cheaper and easier for them to produce one chip for both markets than to product variants – economies of scale and all. And over the past couple of years there have been some announcements about read heads that can handle both formats. The real issue is going to be cost, with LG, or anyone else, having to pay licensing fees to both consortia. But this is the same truce that has reigned with DVD-R and DVD+R. And for the same reason – royalties. This could catch on, but I still think it would be better to have one side win the war and settle it. I wish the Blu-ray camp would adopt iHD, which would really undermine some of the support for HD-DVD. And most, if not all, existing BD players could be updated to handle it. Heck, it might be possible to implement an iHD engine in Java on top of BD-J.
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