Comments on: NEC Shipping Blu-ray/HD DVD chip

By: Gadgetnfo » NEC, Trying to Call a Cease-Fire in Absurd HD Disc Format War, Creates Bi Chips

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:26:36 +0000

[...] NEC moves toward a Blu-Ray-HD-DVD combo [Akihabara News, via CrunchGear] [...]

By: skylergisondo.com

skylergisondo.com — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:30:23 +0000

Yeah, there’s a point. A potential for NEC to go underground in mods. Stick it to both Microsoft and Sony in the videogamers unauthorized modifications and stick it to them again up the ass w/ their ho-hum “next-gen” DVD technology. Hey, maybe it’ll make ‘em play nice. Thanks, NEC!

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:21:00 +0000

But, as Ian pointed out, the licensing for the competing technologies is written such as to prohibit the manufacture of a dual format reader. NEC can make the chip, but nobody who pays for a license of one of the technologies is going to be permitted to build a machine that uses it.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:52:44 +0000

Hi Ian,
The point here is that this chip can play both formats either HD-DVD or Blu ray. So you need not worry wether to go for HD-DVD player or a Blu-ray player. But I hope the optical lens which could read both formats should be out soon. This is a good step . Thanks NEC.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:07:15 +0000

How this matters at all is beyond me. Niether HD-DVD or Blu-Ray will allow any company to produce a duel format drive so the whole point is null, NEC realesed it in hopes that the companys would finaly agree to split the pie as many manufacterers have been trying to convence them to do for some time. it ain’t happinin though.