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Re: Blu-Ray or HD-DVD?
I'm waiting to see who will win the war before jumping in and buying one. I have no interest in buying both formats since one of them will be dead within a year or so.
How long did the VHS / Betamax war take?
I'm currently thinking of buying a media centre. Anyone have any recommendations?
- Gunslinger
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Re: Blu-Ray or HD-DVD?
Right now Blu-Ray is winning the war. Blockbuster isn't even carrying HD-Dvd any longer. As far as video quality they are both excellent and it would be hard to say which is better athough (strictly an opinion here) I think the blu-rays can produce a bit more "depth" in the picture quality. From a technical standpoint the Blu- Ray is superior as it can hold 15x the info that a HD-DVD can. That doesn't mean that it will come out the victor. Betamax was superior to the VHS yet VHS won. MD was superior to the CD, CD won.
Re: Blu-Ray or HD-DVD?
I've always wondered why people were still talking about a format war. Here in Europa (well, Belgium at least) Blu-ray has been outselling HD-DVD by a factor of 5 to 1. It's getting difficult to find HD-DVD discs in all but the larger stores and even then it's only like 1 shelf or so...
Good thing too, never trust an MS backed format.
Re: Blu-Ray or HD-DVD?
never trust an MS backed format.
Never trust a Sony backed format, as they have a VERY high failure rate.
Don't count out HD-DVD just yet. They have the name recognition in their favor, and the ONLY reason Blu Ray is doing as good as it is at the moment is because the industry wants Blu Ray to succeed. For the record, they also wanted Beta to succeed.
While I will agree Blu Ray has a chance, there is still way too much backing of HD for anyone to say the war is over. Uni is still backing them, so it is nowhere near over.
- monkeychow
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Re: Blu-Ray or HD-DVD?
Right now Blu-Ray is winning the war. Blockbuster isn't even carrying HD-Dvd any longer. As far as video quality they are both excellent and it would be hard to say which is better athough (strictly an opinion here) I think the blu-rays can produce a bit more "depth" in the picture quality. From a technical standpoint the Blu- Ray is superior as it can hold 15x the info that a HD-DVD can. That doesn't mean that it will come out the victor. Betamax was superior to the VHS yet VHS won. MD was superior to the CD, CD won.
Its interesting here in Australia. There's not a lot of places around to buy either product yet, but JB Hi-Fi (which is one of the major record stores around) had made a decision to only stock BD titles...so they said...until i noticed last month they now also have HD-DVD.
BD ought to win cos of its superiority...but then as you say history doesn't always show that is the case. And things are different now I guess...like the porn industry's vote is less important now people get their porn online so much.
I'm actually afraid both of these formats will get lost due to consumer "who cares" factor. I mean i care cos i'm a home theatre nerd. But I dont think most people around here will. Like there were reasons to upgrade to DVD from VHS - way better picture on any TV, mono/stereo sound vs 5.1, does not degrade when used, easy to chapter skip, special features on discs, subtitles.
Lots of clear reasons to justify an upgrade. But to these new formats its stuff like "uncompressed sound" and "1080p" which is cool to me but not to Sally Shopper on the Street. So i'm a bit worried that people will either ignore the change. Or go with dvd-hd just cos its sounds closer to what they know and like already. Sounds silly i know, but the ignorance is heavy here, I used to work in a TV store...and trying to explain to people that 1080 is different to 720 yet they can both legally be called HD here...was a battle.
Anyways...i was waiting, but i'm looking at getting a 1080 display very soon, so will prob jump in soon, I'm going to go with BD just cos the specs are that much cooler, and I hope it wins!
Re: Blu-Ray or HD-DVD?
TheMole wrote:never trust an MS backed format.
Never trust a Sony backed format, as they have a VERY high failure rate.
Agreed, and considering Sony's rootkit fiasco the vendor lock-in factor isn't much different either, just can't hide me loathing near everything the Gates Empire does or backs. The more things they fail at, the better this world will be off 
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I'd rather an american company succeed than a Japanese company.
Regarding Blockbuster not backing HD, Netflix still does, and Netflix is on the verge of putting these video stores out of business.
This war is gonna get ugly. Since the beginning I predicted HD would win, and I'm sticking to it. The industry is trying to force Blu Ray on people, and they are risking a backlash to that.
