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There is no player that will play both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray--and none that have been announced.
Thanks for clearing that up, Ken. I did not know that. 
I believe it will be a while for a BR/HDVD player to emerge. Blu-Ray is so named because it's designed around a blue laser. I believe HD-DVD is green. Now, multi-laser players are certainly possible, but I think neither side will license their tech for multi-laser players that will play both. No use anyway as far as I'm concerned. There's very few titles available now. Plus, I just finally got my collection converted to DVD ferchrissakes.
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Mark, actually both HD-DVD and Blu-ray use a blue-violet laser with a 405nm operating wavelength, so that's not part of the incompatibility problem. Just as CD/DVD players use dual lasers for CDs(780nm) and DVDs, DVD-As and SACDs(650nm), the HD player lasers add the 405nm capability without any particular technological problem.
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It's completely a manufacturers/designers are jerks type situation. Someone had designed a chip, but I think Sony killed it.
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