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HD DVD vs. Blue Ray

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Does anyone else find the fact that BOTH of these formats are out there....which one is better??? Which one will win out in the end? I've seen both and, personally think the HD DVD looks better...but it seems that Blue Ray has more films available right now...maybe that will change. Any thoughts on which one will win out?
 
Whichever one the porn companies start using.

That's why VHS won the VCR wars - Betamax was technologically a FAR superior system, but Sony, who owned the patents, wouldn't license the technology to the porn studios.
 
neither before either takes off we will have digital distribution its already happening with porn everybody downloading from the internet its only a matter of time
 
I think they are both too expensive. I'll just stick with regular dvds till they either stop making them or HD and Blue Ray become cheaper.
 
Do we really need a 25GB dvd? I mean, if the quality of the movie is really high for films in these, don't we need great tv too?

Money. It's a funny thing. I'll stick to DVD.
 
starlight70 said:
Do we really need a 25GB dvd? I mean, if the quality of the movie is really high for films in these, don't we need great tv too?
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Yes. It needs to be:

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Personally I think (hope) Blu-Ray (NOT Blue-Ray!!) will make it. Blu-Ray supports higher transfer speeds and have a higher disc capacity per layer (HD-DVD: 15GB single-layered, 30GB double-layered / Blu-Ray: 25GB single-layered, 50GB double-layered). Plus, BR discs offer a clear polymer-coating that gives them substantial scratch-resistence. As for picture quality, there isn't really a difference.

BR has gained a larger amount of support as well. As of now, last year's biggest box office winners (Sony Pictures, Disney and Fox) support Blu-Ray. The forth is Warner who releases in both formats, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs.
 
Interesting article from www.blu-ray.com

Blu-ray software sales have now surpassed HD-DVD for the first time the week of December 24 and they did so by an impressive 20 percent. The sales gap is expected to widen further in 2007 based on research conducted by Twentieth Century Fox and Blu-ray is expected to outsell HD-DVD by a 3.5-to-1 ratio by the end of the first quarter.

One of the driving factors behind the growth in sales is the PlayStation 3 (PS3), which was launched on November 17, 2006 in North America. The PS3 has been selling out at retail outlets since it was launched and despite shortages Sony has been able to meet its target of shipping 1 million PS3s in North America by the end of 2006. What's even more impressive is that they did it faster than their top-selling PlayStation 2 (PS2) platform did when it was launched. Sony is now targetting 6 million PS3 consoles shipped worldwide by the end of the fiscal year (end of March 2007).

While many have doubted the effect the PlayStation 3 would have on the format war between Blu-ray and HD-DVD it's hard to argue with the numbers. Blu-ray sales are up 700 percent since the mid-November launch of the PlayStation 3 and other Blu-ray players from Sony, Panasonic and Philips. According to a recent survey by Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) of over 10,000 PS3 owners, 80 percent indicated they will buy Blu-ray movies and 75 percent said they use the PS3 as a primary device for viewing movies. However, this shouldn't come as such a big surprise as those that have bought the PS3 might as well take advantage of the Blu-ray playback capability, which still is the cheapest Blu-ray player on the market at just $499.

The content advantage that Blu-ray enjoys is another major factor that should become more and more evident now that the Blu-ray exclusive studios (Disney, Fox, Sony, MGM and Lionsgate) are starting to release more titles in the format. When looking at the 20 top selling DVDs of 2006 almost all were released by movie studios supporting Blu-ray, which means that titles such as Pirates of the Carribean and Cars will only be available for Blu-ray. The content advantage should further shift in Blu-ray's favor as the format neutral studios (Warner, Paramount) catch up their Blu-ray release schedules with HD-DVD so that the same movies are available for both formats.

Overall the Blu-ray backers are confident that it's only a matter of time before the Blu-ray format becomes the dominant format in the US market, just as it already accounts for 96% of the market in Japan.
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I have a more simple approach: HD-DVD already sounds pretty much like DVD (it is with an added letter) Blu-Ray sounds like some wacky forgeign what ever you want to call it. People will go with familiarity in this case.
 
Blu-ray sounds like a foreign fish. Which is prolly why it looks to cater to the crowd who buys stuff just for the sake of being able to.
 
ctm5100 said:
and how many of the people who bought a ps3 brought a bluray movie or have a 1080p compatible tv
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I sold quite a few in the past few weeks. And I live in a 3rd world country. ;)
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ctm5100 said:
the current dvd9 size allows enough room for a hd movie if it uses some sort of compression like h264 VC-1 or X-viD
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The quality would suffer. It couldn't be considered HD anymore.
 
personally i prefer blu-ray. BR discs can hold more than HDDVDs, MUCH more. Some of the newer BR discs can hold over 150GB. There's talk of BR discs that could ever hold 300GB. HDDVD can't touch that. Plus i like Sony better as a company.

But i'm not going to buy either of them until one format wins, the formats are consolodated, or hybrid players become mainstream and cheaper.
 
Okay, I know this sounds stupid, but what movie needs 300 GB to store? Other than a Peter Jackson movie, I mean.

Like, if I watch porn of Blu-Ray, is it so clear that I see every freaking hair follicle on their bodies from even when it's an outdoor shot?
 
i just don't get why people care that much about HD video. whether its a HDDVD or blu-ray. i mean how much better really is it. i've seen them in the stores and the pictures look better...but my god not so much better than i need to shell out the money for an HD tv, then a player of one sort or another, then replace all my DVDs with these new ones. i do see the use of updating the DVD player/recorder in my computer to a record able HD or blu-ray. that's just more storage space. but for a better picture...nawh not really...
 
I hope HD-DVD wins just because I hate Sony as a company. But in the end, I think the companies will realize that no one is going to buy either format until they settle the format war, with dual format players/burners.
 
ctm5100 said:
neither before either takes off we will have digital distribution its already happening with porn everybody downloading from the internet its only a matter of time
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Exactly. The main reason VHS won over Betamax was obviously because of porn but also because there really weren't any feasible alternatives for people towards getting that coveted porn. Nowdays we have digital distribution, so porn itself has to be ruled as less of a deciding factor.
 
Marvels said:
Okay, I know this sounds stupid, but what movie needs 300 GB to store? Other than a Peter Jackson movie, I mean.

Like, if I watch porn of Blu-Ray, is it so clear that I see every freaking hair follicle on their bodies from even when it's an outdoor shot?
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You're not getting the picture. Stop thinking about a single movie on a disc. Start thinking an entire Television Season on one disc instead of 7. No more huge collection of box sets. Want all 8 seasons of a show? Great, get the 8 BR disc box set and you're done. Not to mention that's revolutionary in size for data storage, u've got to remember these discs aren't just used for movies, they're used for computers too. Who wants a 14Gb disc when you can have a 300Gb disc? Not me.
 
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