A Hybrid Drive from Pioneer in 2007

The new dual format drive (BDR-103) would put an end at the war has we know it at the moment. All the experts agree that if we have a good and affordable dual format technology, it will basically end the war for movies. On the other end, with the announcement yesterday that TDK could come out with a 200GB disc, Blu-ray end HD DVD could have a different future on data storage. Blu-ray would become a professional solution and HD DVD would be a mass market solution for data storage.

Pioneer is not the only company working on a dual format technology, Samsung and Ricoh both said they will come out with the technology in the near future.