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Since mid-February, it is clear that Blu-ray high-new disc format, and come every few days about reports that the studio now Movies on exactly when this format will be published. Not so interesting. But since we suspected had, that due to the competition between trägerbasierter distribution and on-demand distribution of Blu-ray is not likely to be so all-encompassing as the DVD, this is a small check, what is it doing. Warner, for example, Germany has recently announced, movies at the same time on DVD and video-on-demand offerings to make available, and will tend to shrinking, timing of the recovery chain confused. Since the HD-DVD was declared dead, is also speculation about whether and when Microsoft Blu-ray into its Xbox 360 installs. Microsoft itself denies such rumors, and some evidence suggests that one in Redmond is on the market for HD downloads aims. The keyword here is HDi, the MS initially for HD-DVD, developed XML-based interactive format. It works just as well strapless namely in conjunction with On-Demand Content ... more info. What discs, it is obviously now trying to Blu-ray over standard DVD Slippers: In America, at least tentatively Warner is a movie one weeks formerly on Blu-ray in the business of bringing than on DVD (incidentally, precisely Gondrys film "Be Kind, Rewind"). The largest U.S. online video store Netflix, however, has announced, for films Blu-ray now a higher demand Leihpreis than normal DVDs, since they have much more expensive to purchase and the customers were ready for high resolution to pay more. The latter may be true, possibly even if no such exists TV ... And there was not Nochwas? Yet. Supposedly, the flopped in the U.S., in 2003 introduced disposable DVDs (we reported) now available in selected outlets of magazines and train stations in Munich and Buchhandels Surroundings sells "are. The www.einmal-dvd.com/dvdd.htm here (Disposable DVDs) baptized discs (DVD-D - D as disposable) work is technically different than the American EZ-Ds, which decay at the moment began when a plastic coating is removed, since the DVD-D is the shelf life of 48 hours only from the first playback operation will be downscaled. Nevertheless, the principle is the same (ie, a more questionable matter), and incidentally fits very nicely to this message after which in the eyes of the music industry Resell away from CDs and copyright violations may constitute ...