HD DVD Vs Blu-ray: HD-DVD goes beyond 50GB with new disc

[Kaeruyaki]

Looks bad for Sony. Bluray discs are very hard to make, and 9/10 discs made are no good, meaning that only 10% are actually being sold. The only thing they had above HD DVD is gone now, and I doubt they would risk adding more layers and increasing the bad disc rate.

[phsychokill]

if you think the ps3 will sell millions its a blue ray player so its gona give them one hell of a kick start as oposed to buying adon for the xbox 360 that is no use for anything other than playing movies. pluss size and technology doesnt matter if you look at betamax and vhs the betamax was actualy more advanced than vhs was but vhs still won in the end. the fact is sony has alot of suport mac, disney and fox to name a couple as oposed to hd dvd with the only suporter actualy worth mentioning being microsoft they may rule the os of every pc but but they cant do anything to windows to stop blue ray even if they want to.

[Ennohex]

Woah!
Imagine a triple layer blu-ray disc!
75gig!!

[felonyr301]

guys hd-dvd is going to win because the porn industry said they going to go with the HD-dvd instead of the blueray. Sadly the porn industry is the key here.

[Asherek]

guys hd-dvd is going to win because the porn industry said they going to go with the HD-dvd instead of the blueray. Sadly the porn industry is the key here.

That might have been true during the Beta/VHS war or when DVD's were first introduced, but the Internet wasn't nearly as prevalent for either of those 2 format introductions.

It's quite a bit different now, with porn being so readily available over the Internet, it's not as big of a deal anymore.

[woods05]

In my opinion, I don't think Sony will do well in the next gen disc war.
A lot of people [no one here] don't know what a Blu-ray disc is. On the other hand, HD DVD is obvious. Everyone already knows what a DVD is and they probably know what HD is.
Having HD DVD with over 50 GB is just an added bonus.

[homebrew1973]

HD-DVD or Blu-Ray, what difference does it make which one you decide to go for later on? There`ll be many more drives available that`ll play both formats. And the idea of paying £20-£25 per film anyway, what a joke....

[Veskgar]

I am behind Blu-Ray and I ain't no SONY fanboy. I think Blu-Ray is superior for Next Gen gaming and movies.

It might take a couple years, but Blu-Ray will end up being the industry standard. HD-DVD will not get stomped out, but I doubt it will topple Blu-Ray.

So yeah, my preference is Blu-Ray! My biggest disappointment with both formats is that a lot of movies offer more bang for your buck on DVD.

I'm a huge movie buff and when movies that are available in unrated, extended, director's cut, etc. on DVD are coming out on BLU-Ray without all that extra content, it pisses me off.

Why?

Because the most annoying thing about DVD's is that if you buy a DVD movie, in 6 months a new SPECIAL, DELUXE, ULTIMATE, EXTENDED, etc. etc. etc. version comes out. So you have to buy the damn movie all over again.

It looks like the stage is set for that exact same scenario when it comes to Blu-Ray. And because Blu-Ray movies will be more expensive that is just not acceptable to me as a consumer.

That is probably due to movie studio greed than the format the movie is released on but it is still unacceptable.

Let me now give an example of why I'm so pissed. I'll use the movie Tears of the Sun as an example:

DVD version:
http://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_ite...searchID=67666

Blu-Ray version:
http://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_ite...searchID=67666

The DVD version is a far more great value than the Blu-Ray. Notice the length of the DVD version is 132 minutes but the Blu-Ray only 121 minutes.

*COUGH* RIPOFF!! *COUGH*

[Makaveli777]

Question is it true that with more layers on a disc it becomes more vulnerable to scratches and harder to read.

[Joe88]

guys hd-dvd is going to win because the porn industry said they going to go with the HD-dvd instead of the blueray. Sadly the porn industry is the key here.

you would think but all the big movie companies have took blu-ray except for a few which went HD-DVD
company support for blu-ray compared to HD-DVD is pretty pathetic