Hybrid HD-DVD

[DetroitBaseball]

I heard that some HD-DVDs are hybrid, having a DVD side. One side is HD-DVD, and one side is DVD. This interests me because I could start buying these hybrids and begin an HD-DVD collection while still being able to watch the movie in my normal DVD player until I can afford an HD-DVD player. But not all HD-DVDs are hybrid. What do you think? How can you tell if it is hybrid before you buy it?

 

[TM2-Megatron]

I'd imagine it would be stated quite clearly on the disc's packaging... much in the same way current Dualdiscs have their own logo and packaging scheme.

 

[James]

I heard that some HD-DVDs are hybrid, having a DVD side. One side is HD-DVD, and one side is DVD. This interests me because I could start buying these hybrids and begin an HD-DVD collection while still being able to watch the movie in my normal DVD player until I can afford an HD-DVD player. But not all HD-DVDs are hybrid. What do you think? How can you tell if it is hybrid before you buy it?

The "Hybrids" are usually stored / listed together with the HD DVDs (which is in a way stupid, as the people looking to buy HD DVDs have a HD DVD player and won't care much about combo discs...???)
Eg, if you look at amazon.com, browse for HD DVDs. Hybrids will be marked as "Combo discs" (or similar).