After more than a year of touting Blu-ray as the best technology to replace DVD for storing high-definition video, Sony Corp., one of Blu-ray's major backers, has opened the door to the possibility of unifying the format with its archrival, HD-DVD, according to a report from IDG News Service.
"Listening to the voice of the consumers, having two rival formats is disappointing, and we haven't totally given up on the possibility of integration or compromise," Ryoji Chubachi, Sony's president-elect, said at a news conference last Thursday.
The statement may surprise backers of the rival camps, who have assembled consortiums of major electronics companies, disc makers and Hollywood studios to promote the formats in a battle that echoes one fought a quarter of a century ago between Betamax and VHS.
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