Making good on a promise made months ago, Warner Home Video has announced the first hybrid disc to feature HD-DVD content on one side and standard DVD content on the other. The announcement comes a week after the first two HD-DVD players, both from Toshiba, arrived in stores along with three software titles: "Serenity," from Universal Studios Home Entertainment, and Warner's "The Last Samurai" and "The Phantom of the Opera." Warner senior vp market management Steve Nickerson said several weeks ago that Warner would be releasing a series of "hybrid" discs to ease the transition from standard to high-def DVD.

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