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According to the Inquirer, Ritek had some hybrid BD-R/HD DVD-R media on display at CES. One one side of the disc, you could record HD DVD-R and on the other, BD-R.

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/ ... -dvd-disks

RITEK HAD one of the coolest things on show at CES, a hybrid BD-R and HD-DVD-R. That was the best, but by no means the only innovative thing it was showing off.

The disc is a burnable Blu-Ray on one side and a burnable HD-DVD on the other. If you are making high def content and want to avoid the format wars, this is a good way to distribute media. They are not out yet, but will be in the not so distant future.

I find it odd that Ritek has said nothing about this. Has anyone else heard of these? Wes, did you see them when you were at CES?

They also had hybrid HD DVD-R/DVD-R DL media.

Another cool one they had was a HD-DVD-R and DVD-R-DL combo disc. This one is immensely useful for distribution of video content, you don't have to worry which format the user has, just give them high- and low-def on the same little slice of Lexan.

Who is going to be interested in buying such discs in real volumes ??
Because expect these to be more expensive as there seperate disc's sisters.

Making a Hybrid DVD-R/DVD-R DL or a blu ray-R/hybride DVD-R - These will be more problematic to produce as the 2 single disc's, it has a smaller market from the start and it requires additional R&D costs which you do want to earn back. So by saving a small bit of money on production costs (which are a few cents), other stuff will raise there prices which make this uniterresting except for the gimmick folks.

In other words just use a 2 disc package if you want to add both and use single layer disc's. This way you also have the option of choosing the better stuff (DVD+R-DL (verbatim) combining with your favourite next gen format from your favourite manufacturer and this won't be more expensive.

I asked the woman that handle's Ritek USA's marketing and she said that they also had a disc that was HD DVD-R on one side and HD DVD-RW on the other.

For the reasons that RJW points out, I doubt these will ever make it to mass production. I think that Ritek was just showing that they are capable of producing them.

Unfortunately, I did not stop by the Ritek CES booth. I did stop by Ritek at the 'Digital Experience' event, but they were not displaying any optical media there.

I don't know why, but they waited until Wednesday to put them out.

Probably they weren't going to display them, but Toshiba asked them very nicely to

Seriously though, what a joke.... there's zero demand for any of that media.

There's more of a demand for their 50GB BD-R media, which should be officially announced soon.

The hybrid media just shows their capabilities and is there to build confidence with their customers.

I got a few pictures of Ritek's hybrid media. Both formats appear to be single layer only and the writing speed is rated at 2x.

I want a sample of that media just to say I have it

Besides, as a media collector I should probably get some HD DVD-R media before it's not available anymore anyways.

Good luck getting some. Unless someone places an order, Ritek doesn't plan to produce this media.