While we're on the subject, has anyone proven that it's impossible to read GD-ROM in a standard CD-ROM drive? I'm talking about a serious barrier here, not just "nobody knows how to do it" (which is a real problem, but not the subject of my question).
I know that a number of people claimed that the physical format was too different to be compatible, but I don't buy that - if the technology really was that cutting-edge, they wouldn't have had a second source for readers so quickly, it would have cost them a ton of money, they'd have no reason to make consumer units CD-compatible, and they wouldn't have settled for a measly 1GB when DVD-ROM was there the whole time with 4GB on a single layer. Based on this, I'm inclined to think that GD-ROM is little more than a hack of CD-ROM using semicustom reader and burner configurations. I've seen some claims to this effect, but nothing I'd call proof. Does anyone know what's *really* standing in the way of it working?