This Red Vs Blue battle (not the famous, and very hilarious, Halo machina) is getting a little old for me. I am talking about the long winded standard war of HD-DVD (red laser) vs Blu-Ray (purple poker dot laser). The people who are currently losing the battle are the consumer, with not knowing who is going to win, and therefore having to wait to see who can spit the furthest.
The latest turn in the battle is HD-DVD getting 51 GB disks (thanks to Toshiba) approved by the DVD Forum, making them 1 GB bigger then the current biggest Blu-Ray disk. This is achieved through the use of a 3rd layer, making the disks triple layer.
What does this mean to the good people out there? High resolution movies with more features, backup drives with more capacity, bigger computer games and the possibility of massive XBox 360 games. The problem is by the time the disks are affordable, there will most likely be a better standard replacing both of them.

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