If nothing else, the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2007 has proven that there's no end in sight to the Clash of the HD-DVD / Blu-ray Disc Titans. Here's just a few of the goodies that were unveiled at the show:
- Toshiba's 51GB triple-layer HD-DVD disc. It's yet to be approved by the DVD Forum, but they're confident it'll be a standard-issue item. I suspect existing players will need a firmware upgrade before they can recognize this thing, though.
- But the Blu-ray Disc people aren't about to be one-upped: they unveiled a quad-layer, 100GB Blu-ray disc as well, and claim that they can cram as much as 200 GB on a single disc (possibly by double-siding two 100GB discs).
- There's Toshiba's TWIN Format Disc, with HD-DVD on one side and regular DVD on the other -- although these "combi" format discs have never really sold all that well no matter what the format.
- And then there's LG's combination HD-DVD / Blu-ray Disc player, which will eventually also be released as a PC standalone drive. If nothing else, I might as well start saving my pennies for that baby -- it sounds like the only logical way out of this mess.
(Oh yeah, and there was this company called Banana or something like that, they released this phone...)
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