Universal is going to release DVD-BD combos in the US

Universal is planning to sell DVD-BD combos, beginning with the Bourne trilogy, they are pitching a method that will allow a purchaser to buy Blu-ray even if they lack a player. They watch the DVD version now and then the HD incarnation down the line when they've upgraded their hardware.

In theory this should help future blu-ray player sales. Consumers that own both a Blu-ray player and DVD player may see tremendous value, for example if you have a blu-ray player in the living room and the DVD player in the bedroom, Universal maybe on to something.

Universal will be pricing the Blu-ray Combos above the current prices of Blu-rays, but retailers may reduce the prices to to match the cheaper blu-rays. So in a sense, you may be able to purchase a Blu-ray and get either a very cheap DVD or free DVD.

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TDK Unveils New 320GB 10-Layer Blu-ray Disc

TDK has recently announce a new 10-layer Blu-ray disc capable of 320GB of storage in development. Can you say epic games!

According to TDK: “It is possible to write and read data on and from the disc by using a blue-violet semiconductor laser with an oscillation wavelength of 405nm and an objective lens with a numerical aperture (NA) of 0.85, which are currently used for the Blu-ray disc.”

This has been a trend in newer, higher-capacity Blu-Ray discs. Due to the spread of high speed Internet connections everywhere and firmware being written to non-volatile (update-able) chips, it means that our PlayStation 3 consoles may simply be a firmware update away from reading these 10-layer behemoths of Blu-ray discs in theory.

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