New high capacity Blu-ray Discs will be incompatible with existing players
Existing Blu-ray discs will play in BDXL and IH-BD hardware, but BDXL and IH-BD discs will be incompatible with existing hardware (Image: smemon87 via Flickr)
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The dust has barely settled on the format war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray (in which Blu-ray took the honors), but now the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has announced two new media specs. The final specifications for BDXL (High Capacity Recordable and Rewritable discs) and IH-BD (Intra-Hybrid Blu-ray discs) are expected in the next couple of months and neither will be compatible with existing Blu-ray players – not even with a firmware update.
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