DualDisc

John Mayer recently posted about the DualDisc and its failure. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's a disc with two capabilities. On one side it's a CD just like any other, but on the other side is DVD content. Just like a dual-layer DVD, but with one layer of CD content, readable from the other side of the disc. Marvelous idea in my opinion, but apparently not for a musician who is pressured to find crap to put on the DVD side. This video is an illustration of the small production John Mayer created to put on the DVD side of his DualDisc. He also says "the DualDisc was so aptly named as only two of them were sold, I thought you might like to see."

I admit that I own one of those DualDiscs.



This probably helped engineers get started on the dual-mode HD-DVD/Blu-Ray discs (not a bad idea if companies can't agree, though there really should be just one friggin' format) so we can ignore the hype of either company.