Blu-ray or HD-DVD?


Blu-ray or HD-DVD?  

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  1. 1. Blu-ray or HD-DVD - which is your favorite?

    • Blu-ray
      59
    • HD-DVD
      48


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1. Blu-Ray holds 10 GB more

2. BD-ROM has a much faster Data Transfer Rate for movie application and comparable for normal use

3. Blu-Ray's name is c00ler.

4. PS3 will use Blu-Ray, so why not make it a standard because of all the above facts?

Edit : I find it extremely stupid that those 2 formats haven't merged...... ?_?

I back HD-DVD.

In response to PsykX's points above, here are my counter points.

1) Blu-Ray have themselves admitted that movies will not use more than 25gb or so. And most normal users will not have a great deal of use for 50gb of space, especially at their current price.

2) Irrelavant. The transfer rate has no bearing whatsoever on movies, they will both play exactly the same.

3) Yeah cause that is so important.

4) PS3 is going to be late, vastly overpriced and based on unproven technology. PS3 incorporating Blu-Ray is no plus point in my opinion.

Here are some extra points of my own.

5) The menu format of Blu-Ray is Java which has not been finalised and is not 100% standards compliant. HD-DVD on the other hand uses entirely standard DHTML.

6) The dots on BD discs are alot smaller and closer together. This makes the discs more prone to error.

7) Due to the smaller aperture, the Blu-Ray discs have to be thinner and are therefore more vulnerable than HD-DVD, even with the BD's protective layer.

8) The DRM on HD-DVD is less strict and allows copying of movies to your hard drive so you can store your original safely away.

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Listed in order of importance (from my viewpoint):

HD-DVD is cheap. Blue-Ray is expensive. - Don't underestimate this one, people are cheap bastards.

HD-DVD available (relatively) now. Blue-Ray not available for some time.

Blue-Ray has a higher capacity than HD-DVD.

Blue-Ray has a higher data transfer rate than HD-DVD.

I think this means that HD-DVD will win the "format war", albeit with some thrashing from Sony going down with a fight. Unless Sony and all its partners can promote (read: force) Blue-Ray enough, I can't help but see HD-DVD coming out on top.

Edit: Thanks ahhell!

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Blue-Ray has a higher capacity than Blue-Ray.

Blue-Ray has a higher data transfer rate than Blue-Ray.

I think you made some typos there.

Who cares which is "better"? Right now it's completely irrelevant as neither are available.

As for Blue-Ray, Sony is very good at ****ing up their proprietary formats (Betamax, minidisc, etc).

It's gonna be a long damn time before I will ever buy either.

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i used to be a big fan of hd-dvd but i favor blu-ray now because hd-dvd was delayed. hd-dvd only advantage was to release it first and have it on xbox360 at release date but it failed at both. so, i see no reason for hd-dvd to exist now.

HD-DVD was not delayed at all how can you say that it is on time for a april or March relase for players and movies and as for Xbox 360 it was never siad to be on Xbox 360 dude Never it wasa rumor that they would possably have onea RUMOR only but at CES the rumor turned in to Fact when they annouced a exsternal HD-DVD so not a Rumor and from what i heard at CES is BD-players may not make it for another 2 months after HD-DVD system also the fact BD players will cost more to buy then HD-DVD players. i loved the demo they did on the keynote for HD-DVds onthe new functions and features the players can do without going in to the DVD menus and exiting the movies to do them it was awsome.

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Who cares which is "better"? Right now it's completely irrelevant as neither are available.

Of course it's irrelevant now. But not for long. In the next 12 months, THOUSANDS of HD-DVD and Blue-Ray players will be sold, and people are already making their choice as to which format they will buy/support. I wouldn't say it's completely irrelevant, but mostly, yes ;)

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Of course it's irrelevant now. But not for long. In the next 12 months, THOUSANDS of HD-DVD and Blue-Ray players will be sold, and people are already making their choice as to which format they will buy/support. I wouldn't say it's completely irrelevant, but mostly, yes ;)

I still don't get how someone can decide now which to buy. Wait until they hit the market then make a decision (remember what happened with those DIVX sell destructing disks ??)

This new format war is going to get very ugly before it gets better.

Don't get burned. WAIT!

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  • 4 weeks later...

The average consumer isn't going to jump ship until they know that the format they are buying will be around for long haul. This format war will set next gen DVDs back 5 years. Hopefully by that time we'll all have fat enough pipes to have a full movie library available for direct download into the home and won't need discs for movies anymore. Personally I'm more interested in data as you can do some huge backups onto these new discs.

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I'm going for HD-DVD myself

I personally think they'll win for the simple fact that the masses are cheap, and there is NO video

quality difference between the two formats, They use the exact same video and audio codecs

Like Average Joe cares about that anyway.

Sure, You'll say

-But the Blu-Ray has a faster data transfer rate.. Joe doesn't care, He doesn't see this watching his movie.

-But the Blu-Ray has a higher storage capability!.... Joe doesn't care, He gets his movie cheaper with the same content.

-But the Blu-Ray has a cool name.. Joe doesn't care, His HD-DVD player is over 1000 dollars cheaper.

-But the Blu-Ray will get cheaper over time.. Joe doesn't care, HD-DVD player and discs are cheaper now.

I could go on all day about how cheap people are, Sure you'll get your gamers and computer geeks

Me being one of them that wants more storage, faster speeds, But lets face it, We're the minority

Average Joe doesn't understand nor care about it and I honestly couldn't care less which wins

As long as that holographic disc keeps on getting developed

All that and HD-DVD will be consumer more consumer (us, you, me, the guy next to you, my maid cleaning the cigarette i just put out in the rug, etc) friendly; Not as tight on DRM and annoying things like that.

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