Editor's note: I don't know whether DualDisc works or not. Onkyo issued an advisory in November to the effect that they were going to investigate. Since then, my DV-SP800 has idling waiting to chew up the new format. Five months later...and no investigation. Jim Farber of New York Daily News writes... Two weeks ago, Bullets & Bombs reported on the soaring sales of DualDiscs, the music industry's latest format of choice. The next week, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal echoed my cheery pronouncement.
But after the column appeared, a bunch of readers and retailers wrote in to say they've experienced technical difficulties with the double-sided doodads.
Jeff Lega, who runs The Record Store in Hopewell, N.J., wrote: "I really don't care for DualDiscs. They may be loaded with extras, but the majority of my customers, when buying a disk, want to play it in their cars [and those] players can scratch the CDs due to the extra bulk of the attached DVD. I can only imagine what it will do to the DVD side when the disk is loaded into a DVD player — they're more sensitive when it comes to scratches."
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