There's so much use of the word "HDM" here that it might as well be a new format. It rolls off your tongue unlike HD-DVD, and it doesn't confuse the hell out of you (well not me, but J6P) like Blu-ray.

"Available on DVD and HDM"


Mmmm. Considering that both of these formats are headed for a stalemate, they might as well can them both and create a 34gb format based on the HD DVD 17gb/layer spec, with the security measures of Blu-ray.

http://www.avmagazine.it/immagini/warner_10_01_07.jpg

Sadly, it never materialized.

When Dual Format players are more popular, we can call them "HDM Players". :)

http://www.avmagazine.it/immagini/warner_10_01_07.jpg

Sadly, it never materialized.

lulz :D

http://www.avmagazine.it/immagini/warner_10_01_07.jpg

Sadly, it never materialized.

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x66/LeeAStewart/ks6236.jpg

While I share the disgust for the totalHD idea, I do prefer to call HD DVD and Blu Ray by a generic 'Hi Def' name.

Who really cares what kind of disc you watch the movie on? As long as you enjoy the experience.

While I share the disgust for the totalHD idea, I do prefer to call HD DVD and Blu Ray by a generic 'Hi Def' name.

Who really cares what kind of disc you watch the movie on? As long as you enjoy the experience.

when you need 2 players or one very expensive one to fully enjoy the experience, some ppl care.

While I share the disgust for the totalHD idea,

I really don't understand why people dislike Total-HD so much. In my opinion, dual-format disks is a lot better than dual-format players. If you have a HD DVD-player with 100 Total-HD disks, you can later decide to buy a Blu-ray player, and you'll still be able to play all your disks. If you buy a dual-format player, and 100 disks which is a mix of Blu-rays and HD DVDs, your next player also has to be dual-format if you want to still be able to play all of the disks.

It would also be a lot easier for stores to just have a single hidef-version of the movie. Shelf space is one thing, but they won't have to try to keep track of how many more copies they should order of the different editions, so they won't run out of one before the other. All they have to decide is how many hidef copies they need.

I'm not sure how many people that but HD DVD and Blu-ray movies today that are confused by the formats, but I'm sure that as more and more people buys an HD-player, I'm pretty sure there's going to be a lot of people with BD-players that buys and returns HD DVDs that they can't get to play. With TotalHD, this won't be a problem at all (except for the lucky few that buys HD-VMD, but they don't count ;) ), If you have an HD-player, you can use TotalHD.

Finally, TotalHD can be used to "trick" Blu-ray or HD DVD-exclusive stores to carry the competing format :)

The worst part about the format is probably price, but since nobody really knows if it would have added $1, $10 or $0 to the retail-price of the disks, I think it's unfair to dismiss it as an abomination.