I prefer blu ray but that might just be because I own a PS3 to play them on. I've never seen a HD DVD movie.
blu-ray, cus HD-DVD has just lost the format war cus of the studios that signed over. Universal will fallow ensuite.
It looks as if Blu Ray is crushing HD DVD but I don't know... with MS backing them (and I'm an Apple guy)... I'm rooting for HD DVD. Look, it's not a huge difference, I've seen them side by side! HD DVD has better/more special features... Blu Ray is already in 3 different flavors... HD DVD is cheaper... HD DVD has DVD on the other side (some I think)... I think the reason I like HD DVD better is because I like UPS better than FedEx and Lowes over Home Depot. I don't know why I just do! Plus I have a 360 so I guess I'm waiting for the HD DVD to drop slightly on that...
Blu-ray 4 sure. my ps3 demonstrates their capability. only probs is its more than a 10 quid more than dvd. Blu-ray to win!
What you do is you take the Blu-ray Diode out of it and you throw a power source and some transistors on it, vioala! you have a blue lazer that can burn crap.
what about Multiplex Optical Data Storage? http://www.infosatellite.com/news/2004/10/p011004storage.html
I prefer HD DVD, I like the format and the fact that you can code normally, and not have the issues with not being able to do menus on home-encoded movies. But, it looks like Blu Ray will win. Whatever, I don't care anyway. DVD is good enough for me; I won't switch to hi-def media for a while.
Obviously I will buy a hybrid player that can play both formats, they are already selling them for pretty cheap. As far as who will win the war? I dont know. I hear that blu-ray is winning by a lot, but i hear that the porn industry chooses HDDVD... in the past, with betamax Vs. vhs, the porn industry chose vhs, because it was cheaper, even though the quality was worse, and it ended up dictating the way the market went... nowadays times are different though and i think i recall hearing that all the hollywood dudes support blu-ray... personally i think blu ray is cooler, but i am not going to buy a PS3 just yet
I believe that Blu ray will beat HDDVD. But downloads will eventually beat all. Downloads can be transferred from your computer to your iPod or to your tv. Apple believes in this also, that is why their new mac book air has no disk drive. iTunes and Xbox Live both have movie rentals. Online rental sites such as netflix now have movies you can watch straight from your PC. More and more memory can be fit in smaller spaces, allowing more movies tone on your computer.
I think MS is only backing HD-DVD because Sony had to pick between a Java thing and iHD(now called HDi) and MS developed the latter, which is used for HD DVDs. While I think that HD-DVD being semi-compatible with current DVD encoding is wonderful, if it's time to move on, why hold onto old technology? Blu-Ray is still expensive, and don't make good storage devices. If you have a file that large...just...I don't even know exactly what to say. If you need to store that much stuff, that a DVD won't hold it, that's was external Hard Drives are for. Plain and simple. I can only think of 2 or 3 things that are so huge you'd need a Blu Ray disc to transfer via CD, and they're all huge things like Adobe CS3 and whatnot, and even then, you're dealing with the illegal ISOs of them. And then you need to pay for a $500 burner and your friend you're giving it to needs to have something to read the format. For similar(although less cost prohibitive) issues plaugue HD DVD with the same problem. I've been backing Blu-Ray since it was first released as "a new format" back before I knew about HD DVD or a format war. After comparing, Blu Ray is technically superior. Sure it doesn't guarentee anything, but Sony learned a lot after Betamax. It could all be avoided if only people weren't stubborn. yay, you bought an HD DVD player to support the format. You're being stubborn. Blu Ray is winning. It's more expensive, but it's better. I actually saw someone argue that "Blu ray isn't any better wuality, it's just storage space". Before it's brought up, I'm going to counter that with: If a video doesn't need to be compressed as much to save space, then the video quality certainly can go up. Blu Ray is so huge, games like MGS4 have almost uncompressed sound. That's amazing. Sure, we'll all look back and go "amost uncompressed sound? What were we, cavemen?" but for right now, it's the highest quality available, and if you're going to go HD, it'd all or nothing.