Aw, shucks: the shooting has jut barely begun on the blustery format war for dominance of the next-generation DVD landscape, with Blu-ray still struggling to get out of the gates and HD DVD out dancing on its own, in small numbers, in a mostly empty, uncaring market. Hardly the dramatics of a D-Day or Johnny Depp film opening…but the battle is yet young.
Now Warner engineers Lewis Ostover, Wayne Smith, and Alan Bell have applied for a patent on a triple-format DVD disk which could combine HD DVD, Blu-ray, and standard definition DVD video on a single disk, enabling studios to support all three formats on on piece of media, eliminating customer confusion and making movies compatible with…well, everything. What fun is that?
