HD-DVD or Blu-ray

[ChaosK]

Blu-ray since I have a PS3.

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!!!"

Chances are, if people can't figure out HD-DVD, they're going to walk into the place thinking the blu-ray is like a fucking x-ray...which of course, they have heard all these horrible things about x-ray radiations...ooo, so to stay away from blu-ray radiation they'll flee for the enzymes...

[Stoopider]

I would vouch for Blu-Ray. It's just so much bigger. Now if only they can create faster burners for Blu-Ray. I heard it takes like 4-6 hours to fully code an entire BluDisc.

The potential for storing 2 times the quantity in a single disc and price difference poses it's problems. If Blu-Ray Discs were competitively priced (which it soon be with over-production especially by our friends in Taiwan). The question is what the heck do you store on them?

You can store a standard quality tv show of 23 hours. Thats watching how many movies? 7 movies in one Blu-Ray. 9 Hours high definition. And if a movie's only 2-3 hours, you kinda feel cheated about the rest of the 6 hours. Unless it's competitively priced like a hd-dvd and you don't mind having alot of redundant space on it.

Which would make it interesting for things either than movies however. I think I can store my entire Naruto & One Piece collection on 1 Blu-Ray.

http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/blur...won-023974.php

[DDBen]

Blue-ray is my pick not only is it a larger size but it will have far better penetration into the average household due to the PS3 using the disks and having a built in player.

On the other hand its optional on the X-box 360 and its a useless option unless you intend to buy HD-DVD.

So overall I would say Blue-ray has the edge as long as the PS3 is a sucess.

[Assertn]

So overall I would say Blue-ray has the edge as long as the PS3 is a sucess.

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[Aeon]

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I stopped reading when I saw Xbox 360 Community Blogcast

[samsonlonghair]

I won't be getting an HD tv any time in the next three years, so it doesn't matter to me.

Still, just for fun, I'll guess HDDVD based on history. Currently, HDDVD players are cheaper to produce. RCA's video record players never sold because the player was too damn expensive.

Blu-Ray is being championed (primarily) by Sony, right? Let's take a look at Sony's other formats: Betamax, Video8, MMCD, Mini-CD, SDDS 7.1, Memory Stick, ATRAC encoding, and UMD. Let's also not forget those lovely CDs with a free rootkit installed. Aside from 3.25 floppies Sony has not had many sucessful formats. I'm guessing that Blu-Ray will go the same way.

[Kraco]

Well, I wasn't going to post at all in this thread, but after Samson's post I guess I'll post just to join the not concerned chorus. Maybe after two or three years I'll have a look at this. Right now I haven't even upgraded my single layer dvd burner to a double layer one, because doudle layer DVDs still have a too bad price / capacity ratio compared to single layer ones. Who knows how long it will take for Bluray and HDDVD to reach a good enough ratio. And besides, I don't think burners will be plentiful enough to get cheap in the immediate future.

I simply can't choose either with the info and facts now available. But like el_boss said, Bluray does have a cooler name. HDDVD was just invented by some computer algorithm... No human would come up with a name that unimaginative.

[Assertn]

I stopped reading when I saw Xbox 360 Community Blogcast

Haha that's fine.....but from my understanding the writer of that article also owns a PS3 himself....and none of it seemed very biased, but rather is merely observations not unlike the ones I've seen firsthand. But it's cool, turn a blind eye if you must.