Blu-ray and HD-DVD disc competing storage formats, with a view to the standard DVD format to replace. In fact, they look to the standard DVD in terms of replacing the storage capacity. While there is always a need to improve on an existing system, these two formats have been received much attention because of the imminent appearance of high-definition movies, video and television. It is noteworthy that high-definition movies are more space and so the search for the next generation of DVD is occur.
Blu-ray and HD DVD are fighting it out to replace the standard DVD. Much of the research and development in any format, and various industry giants are gone close on one or the other to their products.
Sony and Panasonic are two major companies in the electronics that go with Blu-ray. All their products are the Blu-ray technology.
Toshiba and NEC support HD DVD and all of its HD DVD products using technology.
With regard to the Game consoles, Sony Playstation 3 will use Blu-ray and the Xbox from Microsoft, will use HD-DVD.
All these products have backward compatibility, but they will be able to player the standard DVD's. However, they will not play the format of the disc storage competitors. Thus, Blu-ray will not be able to play HD disks, and vice versa.
The truth is that many large companies have invested so much money into their products, to see that they do not want the opposition would, so that the lastwhat they will do that makes them compatible.
After these words, Pioneer and LG is the announcement that they are produced, would be a Blu-ray / dual DVD player. This will undoubtedly have two individual readers, one for Blu-ray and HD DVD. NEC has also announced recently that they have a chip as the processor behind a universal player that is capable of playing both Blu-ray and can be used to create HD DVD's. So things happen, but you may have to wait a few years before you products on the shelves, and they may be expensive, with a start.