DN: It really isn't going to cost any more to make a combination disk - indeed, it should save some money on materials and packing.
Regarding your second comment, I'm not sure you understand how a combo disk works. There is no reduction in quality, a combo disk is (in terms of the flip disks most HD DVD combos were shipped as) a complete HD disk and complete DVD disk glued back-to-back. A Blu-ray combo disk would have the same 50G capacity a regular Blu-ray disk would have, it's just on the other side it'd have a 8.5Gb DVD disk too.
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DN: It really isn't going to cost any more to make a combination disk - indeed, it should save some money on materials and packing.
Regarding your second comment, I'm not sure you understand how a combo disk works. There is no reduction in quality, a combo disk is (in terms of the flip disks most HD DVD combos were shipped as) a complete HD disk and complete DVD disk glued back-to-back. A Blu-ray combo disk would have the same 50G capacity a regular Blu-ray disk would have, it's just on the other side it'd have a 8.5Gb DVD disk too.