There'd be little to play it on at this stage. The idea here is you get a "real" DVD once you've burnt it, that'll play in any DVD player.
Theoretically someone can produce a DVD burner that supports CPRM and burn HD in HD DVD format (this would be a 3X DVD) with it, but the only people who'd be able to watch the resultant 3X DVDs would be people with HD DVD players.
Wouldn't be hard for Blu-ray players to support 3X DVD as an optional standard (and would be nice in many ways), but the last I heard things were so bad between the DVD Forum and BDA that Sony actually will not pick up packages sent by the DVD Forum. No, I'm serious, they keep returning them unopened (check the 40th-41st letter voting entry on the DVD Forum website as an example. Engadget's highly professional and never wrong forum software is preventing me from posting a link.) In addition, the last meeting included a proposal to promote the HD DVD format for red laser players and while the proposal technically passed, it was opposed by such a large proportion of the industry it's unlikely to result in any actual players being created or discs being pressed.
All of which is a shame. 720p with fairly decent sound (two hours of FR DTS is about 2G) should fit pretty easily on a dual layer disc. And the length of time to download ought to mean that 8.5Gb is actually a pretty decent upper limit for a download and burn system anyway.
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There'd be little to play it on at this stage. The idea here is you get a "real" DVD once you've burnt it, that'll play in any DVD player.
Theoretically someone can produce a DVD burner that supports CPRM and burn HD in HD DVD format (this would be a 3X DVD) with it, but the only people who'd be able to watch the resultant 3X DVDs would be people with HD DVD players.
Wouldn't be hard for Blu-ray players to support 3X DVD as an optional standard (and would be nice in many ways), but the last I heard things were so bad between the DVD Forum and BDA that Sony actually will not pick up packages sent by the DVD Forum. No, I'm serious, they keep returning them unopened (check the 40th-41st letter voting entry on the DVD Forum website as an example. Engadget's highly professional and never wrong forum software is preventing me from posting a link.) In addition, the last meeting included a proposal to promote the HD DVD format for red laser players and while the proposal technically passed, it was opposed by such a large proportion of the industry it's unlikely to result in any actual players being created or discs being pressed.
All of which is a shame. 720p with fairly decent sound (two hours of FR DTS is about 2G) should fit pretty easily on a dual layer disc. And the length of time to download ought to mean that 8.5Gb is actually a pretty decent upper limit for a download and burn system anyway.