Combo HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Burners

Are there any out on sale or coming out soon, to anyones knowledge?

Daniel Elder wrote:
Thanks, then are the HD-DVD's that are being made a proprietary deal, or do they have some sort of high end setup?
are you talking about commercially produced HD-DVD's? If so, yeah there is a high-end setup. I assume that they are being pressed from glass masters, just like CD's and SD dvd's. AFAIK, there are only two pieces of software that can fully take advantage of either HD-DVD or BLU_Ray discs. One is Scenarist and the other is Netblender's DOStudio MX. They are both very expensive. DO Studio is $249/month, that's right almost $3000 a year!
I know, there are other pieces of software that author HD or BLU Ray, but you will find that they do not fully take advantage of the standards. And since I believe that you are asking about commercial HD DVD's I am answering based upon that assumption. I really hope that I am not wrong!!
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