Can you burn BD on a DVD-5 and it play for 20 minutes?

I know where you're coming from, but can I kind of spin this a bit:

VHS won over Betamax, but the Betamax format returned as Betacam.

Blu-ray won over HD-DVD, but perhaps HD-DVD returns as the industry standard for corporate/industrial HD, which then becomes as ingrained as Beta SP/DigiBeta for the next decade.

Frankly, I don't think that will happen as Hard Disk/H.264 networked solutions will win over BR disks.

But I don't see BR as a Corporate Video medium either.

Can you burn BD on a DVD-5 and it play for 20 minutes?
No... you can burn at least 27 minutes of h.264 @ 17Mbps BD onto DVD-5. I did manage to get 30 minutes on one the other day.

http://dvinfo.net/conf/showpost.php?p=817842&postcount=11

Best Buy Pulls Remaining HD DVD Stock Off Shelves

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=11279

The last remnants are washing out to sea folks....

currently you can buy a 8 gig USB key for less than $50.
small, light, fast , reusable....
few DVD player have the usb socket, but the day they all have, this will be the end of the disc (red or blue)

I'm still trolling craigslist looking for deals.

Last night I picked up 8 HD DVD movies for $70. Half of which I had not seen. Today things are different. Just because a format dies doesn't mean you are going to see all use for the hardware/software cease.

Frankly I had my doubts that either format was going to see anything more than a fraction of the popularity of DVD. Consumers are tired of optical discs that their kids scratch up or discs that get flaky in some players.

Digital downloads will be the next big thing for many. Me ..I don't care as long as my price/performance ideals are met.

Giroud and Harrison I think you are both right! There will always be those people that will need to have a physical thing to hold that is precious to them and there will always be those people that don't care about that. So I predict that both flash memory and Internet downloads will be the next wave. Bandwidth is the issue with these - but that will be solved sooner than later.

As far as standards though, BD has won this round. HD-DVD will not come back Toshiba has clearly stated that. They are not doing any development or production on any HD-DVD equipment or discs. The industry will not pick it up if no leader runs with it.

Toshiba should open up the HD-DVD spec to the open source community. THAT would be very interesting, indeed!

But what would they get for opening up the spec? They had spent alot of resources to develop HD-DVD, business wise it's better to keep that stuff secret.

and you do not need opened specs, you need plants to build burners,players, and discs....