Warner Brothers' continue to push forward with their Total HD hybrid discs. We first reported on them at this year's CES, and now WB say that the initial limited-capacity discs could be ready for market as early as June.
Just to jog your memory, in this landscape of multiple competing formats, Total HD offers a single disc with one side formatted as Blu-ray, and the other as HD DVD. The first discs will feature a single layer of both - in other words 15GB capacity for HD DVD and 25GB for Blu-ray.
Ramping up a little, a dual layer (30GB) HD DVD side coupled with a single layer Blu-ray disc could be ready by August. No definite date was given for dual-layer of both formats.
With only Warner investing in Total HD so far, consumer appeal - and titles - could be limited.
For the sake of reminder, as well as the two major competing high definition disc formats Blu-ray and HD DVD) we have new kid HD VMD, triple layer/format discs (also from Warner), plus suggestions that discs are going out of fashion anyway, thanks to Flash and the Internet.
Oh for a simple technological life.
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