A DVD combo? Don’t hold your breath

For consumers, a device that could play both HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs would take a lot of risk out of adopting the new video players–but one may not arrive for a while.

Legal agreements, intellectual property issues and technological pride will likely keep the two camps backing incompatible next-generation technologies from coming together in the near future, executives and analysts said.

This is going to hurt consumers more than anything. Having to purchase a seperate player for each format is not going to happen for a lot of people, so it’s at least good to see that most movies are available on both. Source: News.com.