I wrote about the continuing DVD format war between HD DVD and Blu-Ray on my previous blog entry. The question is who will emerge as the victor in this battle? NEC announced today that it has developed a chip that is capable of decoding the two DVD formats at the same cost of a decoder that reads only one format. Just like any other format wars before, the whole format compatibility becomes a non-issue as future DVD players will support both formats. Ultimately, there are no winners or losers in this silly format war. The only problem now is to find an affordable optical pickup that reads both formats.

10/11/2006 10:54:49 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

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