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...

The dust has barely settled on the format war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray that saw Blu-ray take the honors, but that hasn’t stopped the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) announcing two new media specs using Blu-ray Disc technology. The final specifications for BDXL (High Apacity 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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