Warner Offers Peace

The end of the format war is on the horizon at least from the consumer's standpoint. The New York Times reports that Warner Brothers has developed a DVD disc that can hold both HD and Blu-Ray simultaneously. NEC and LG have already developed a player that is capable of playing both formats, but Warner's True HD solution is much better.

Eventually one of the formats will win out. Once that happens the dual players will no longer be available, and all of the old discs you have will become worthless. However, with Warner's True HD discs it doesn’t matter who comes out on top. Your old True HD discs will still play.

Of course HD, Blu-Ray, and True HD will all become obsolete when HVD hits the market. Holographic Versatile Discs are suppose to hold 160 times the data of Blu-Ray. They are rumored to hit the consumer market in 2011.