Posted by Ivory Tha Lil White Boi at 66.56.189.143 on September 11, 2001 at 06:09:14:
In Reply to: Thanks -clarification posted by Pope Will on September 10, 2001 at 15:12:13:
: Thanks. It was from a friend who works in dubbing and in film
production here in Toronto that I heard a) recordable DVD machines
will not play the collection of DVDs we may be compiling right now,
and b) Lucas has very recently - in discussion of the pending
Phantom Menace DVD - that he can't justify releasing the original
Trilogy until more machines are sold.
: My comment about the special edition of Dogma being a safe buy is
that I predict DVDs will continue and R-DVD will have to adapt itself
due to public outcry. I don't claim to understand about how the
"writing" of the RDVD program is not compatible with playing of a
regular DVD. But aparently this is a problem. I expect and hope that
RDVD will not take off until it can accomodate DVD. That's all I
meant.
I dunno if you're talking about a different format or not but if you are it
is most likely gonna fail just like DivX did. Recordable and
rerecordable DVD's are already here and they are compatible with
about 80% of the home players out there. I have a DVD recorder in
my Mac and it records rewrites and plays regular DVDs just fine.
There is no problem. Sounds kinda like your friend is uninformed or
an idiot.
Ivory