Not really. You only have to buy a combo player once. Dual discs you pay for every single time you buy them. Since these are currently on hold, it's difficult to say how much of a premium price each disc will be however the HD-DVD/DVD combo discs run a minimum of $10 more than a single format disc. You can pretty much count on these hybrid discs running a minimum of $20 more apiece. Conceivably, they might come close to doubling the cost of a single format disc.
Still think these are cheaper than a Combo Player?
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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"Much cheaper than a Combo Player"
Not really. You only have to buy a combo player once. Dual discs you pay for every single time you buy them. Since these are currently on hold, it's difficult to say how much of a premium price each disc will be however the HD-DVD/DVD combo discs run a minimum of $10 more than a single format disc. You can pretty much count on these hybrid discs running a minimum of $20 more apiece. Conceivably, they might come close to doubling the cost of a single format disc.
Still think these are cheaper than a Combo Player?