Quote Originally Posted by el_boss
Blu-ray because it has a cooler name. HD-DVD just sounds some kind of protein or enzyme or some shit like that. Blu-ray sounds like fucking awesome space-ship or some kind of weapon of mass fucking shit up.

"They've got us cornered... start up the Blu-ray of hell from infinite doom!!!"
I never thought of it that way... Makes me think of Star Trek and wish I had a "Blu-ray of hell from infinite doom!!!"

By the way I personally voted for Blu-ray because I like the prospect of the extra storage on it which means best video format for longer time period, Because of its lovely 54Mbit/s data transfer rate, and I like Blue. The price for the player is a little more which I can understand. The Blu-ray disks also cost more, but you are also getting more storage out of the disk therefore cost per GB is lower than that of the HD-DVD. I think the comparison page said that for a single layer disk of each brand cost $17.99 for the 25Gb blu-ray and $14.99 for the 15Gb HD-DVD. That works out to be $0.71 per GB for Blu-ray and $0.99 per GB for HD-DVD.

If you have not looked there is also an article comparing the formats side by side Here.