dvda-sacd said:
Pioneer plans combination drive assembly for Blu-ray and HD DVD:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/77562
Regards.
Frankly, I hope the introduction of a dual player does not come about. My interest is very much with the new codecs, because of love of music and concerts, and the HD DVD players deliver this quality sound.
And because BD can only pass on the new sounds via the forthcoming HDMI 1.3 and you must have a new a/v with HDMI 1.3, in my view, it is important to have music and concert producers use the HD DVD format and save us a ton of money.
The HD-A1 and HD-XA1 players can give us the new sounds via either HDMI 1.0 and up or 5.1 multichannel analogs. See
page 59 of the HD-A1 User manual:
http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/dvd/product.asp?model=hd-a1
Click "Resources" and the "Owner's Manual".
And with update 2.0 for the HD DVD software, DD TrueHD will be available not only in 2 channel but in 5.1 multichannel as well for analogs and up to 8 discrete channels with HDMI. Both types of audio connections offer DD TrueHD, DTS-HD, DD Plus and LPCM in 48, 96 or 192kHz.