Actually, a blu-ray player isn't a high defintion DVD player. It is a high definition optical disc player, whose discs just happen to be called blu-ray discs. All DVDs are optical media, but not all optical media are DVDs. The terms DVD and optical disc are not interchangeable. DVDs are SD media, so high defintion DVDs don't exist. A blu-ray player is a player that plays blu-ray discs, not high definition DVDs (which don't exist). HD-DVDs are also not high defintion DVDs (even though that's what the acronym stands for), they are are a completely new format. If anything the lawsuit should have said "HD Optical Discs" or "HD Optical Media" or something like that because HD DVDs don't exist, HD-DVDs do, but not HD (high definition) DVDs. There are (okay were) 3 main optical formats, Blu-ray, HD-DVD, and DVD. Just tacking HD in front of DVD doesn't mean anything. Anyway, this is all semantics and i'm sure everyone involed knows what the lawsuit means, so in the end it doesn't really matter.
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Actually, a blu-ray player isn't a high defintion DVD player. It is a high definition optical disc player, whose discs just happen to be called blu-ray discs. All DVDs are optical media, but not all optical media are DVDs. The terms DVD and optical disc are not interchangeable. DVDs are SD media, so high defintion DVDs don't exist. A blu-ray player is a player that plays blu-ray discs, not high definition DVDs (which don't exist). HD-DVDs are also not high defintion DVDs (even though that's what the acronym stands for), they are are a completely new format. If anything the lawsuit should have said "HD Optical Discs" or "HD Optical Media" or something like that because HD DVDs don't exist, HD-DVDs do, but not HD (high definition) DVDs. There are (okay were) 3 main optical formats, Blu-ray, HD-DVD, and DVD. Just tacking HD in front of DVD doesn't mean anything. Anyway, this is all semantics and i'm sure everyone involed knows what the lawsuit means, so in the end it doesn't really matter.