Blu-Ray or HD-DVD?

[Stephen Coates]

I'm really not sure as I don't know much about either, ut I have a feeling it will be Blu Ray.

I could of course be completely wrong though.

[rayzorblue]

I went for HD-DVD because im old enough to remember the video wars back in the day which betamax lost not because of inferior quality but because of price and HD-DVD is the cheaper option, of course i also believe pretty soon all these will be defunct as i reckon Films on little memory cards will be available eventually and the way its going you would be able to fit more on one of them in the end especially if it was the size of a DVD.

Probably wrong though i rarely back a winner.

[Harrison]

I also believe that eventually we won't purchase any film on media of any kind. A time will eventually come when the telecoms industry gets of its bum and actually upgrades the networks to the current best technology, and once we all have Internet2 speed fibre connections we will then be able to all connect to true video on demand services that will allow access to the world's film library for a set fee.

But until that time ever happens I still think it will be a split thing for some time to come. Especially after I did some research into Dolby Digital Plus and discovered that HD-DVD states this new audio encoding as the default requirement for the format, whereas Blu-Ray states only DVD quality 5.1 Dolby Digital and Plus as only an optional extra.

[TiredOfLife]

Chose HD-DVD
Cheaper and backed by microsoft.
So expect it to appear in PCs sooner and gather support that way.

[Demon Cleaner]

And as Sony forbids that any kind of pr0n can be released on Blu Ray, you can imagine that HD-DVD can take profit on that market

[Submeg]

And as Sony forbids that any kind of pr0n can be released on Blu Ray, you can imagine that HD-DVD can take profit on that market

Well if that were to be true, then its definately going to be HD-DVD

[Harrison]

I didn't know Sony had forbid Pr0n releases on Blu-Ray. Not sure how they could really stop the industry using the format, but if they have then I agree, HD-DVD will definitely win easily.