It looks like a company called Ricoh may bring an end to the bitter rivalry between HD-DVD and Blu-ray. The company has reportedly developed a component that reads and writes to both HD-DVD and Blu-ray formats. Not only that, it reads and writes to CD and DVD as well.
Gathering what I could from the description of the device, I'm fairly certain the component operates using what I like to call "magic." Ricoh plans to display the component at the upcoming Optoelectronics Exhibition in Japan later this week.
If you've been planning on picking up the HD-DVD drive for the 360 (or a certain other console) you might want to see how this technology pans out.
[Via QJ]
1. So does this mean that Microsoft might cancel the HD-DVD player and put out a new, dual HD and Blu-Ray player extension?
Do you think developers will now try to make one game for the "other" console and the 360 on only one next-gen format?
Do you think this will mean more cross platforming?
I've got a lot of questions lol ... this company is gonna shut a lot of people up though.
Posted at 11:59AM on Jul 10th 2006 by John