Posted on 04/26/2007 8:22:22 AM PDT by mjp
Both offer the same 1080p native on the discs. The only difference really is that Blu-ray has 50gb, and hddvd 30gb. Plus, Blu-ray in movie players have more bandwitdth, to include more high def audio options.
Mike
What is 760p?
HD is 720p or 1080i, with 1080p as the higher up option that’s not ATSC broadcast. Both Blu-ray and hddvd record in 1080p.
Huh????
Both formats offer 1080p
Both formats use blue lasers.
So far, blue ray has not shown a clear superiority.
An finally, do you really want to support sony?
But it's really had to get one of those tapes into one of the new HD-DVD players!
and the picture quality really sucks! I get nothing other than a plain blue screen!
Mark
Hate to bring you up to speed, but you can get a Samsung internal DVD-R/+R/+-RW/DL burner (that will also burn a CD at a rate greater than 40x) for about $30.
Actually you make my point. In little more than a decade CD burners have decreased in cost by more than two orders of magnitude.
Thanks, I realized that, but I didn’t want to see you, or any other Freepers get ripped off when you mentioned $100!
And I know what you mean. I’m looking at a computer that has a 4x DVD+R that I got a terrific deal on at the time... $400! And that was just a few years ago. Now, I can get a multi-mode burner ( DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+RDL ) burner that (according to Samsung) will read DVDs at 16x, burn single layer DVDs at 18x, dual layer DVDs at 8x, DVD-RAM (does anyone even use that anymore?) at 12x, CD-Rs at 48x, and CD-RWs at 32x! Just $30!
Mark
It’s been a while since I’ve had to buy a CD or DVD burner that wasn’t already included in a system. It’s pretty safe to assume that if HD DVD and Blue Ray follow the same trends as CD’s and DVD’s, then in ten years burners that can handle all these formats will be a standard item on computers and rather trivial in cost.
An finally, do you really want to support
Blu Ray puts up to 50GB on a disk. Perhaps you don't have much use for that much data archiving capacity, but I do. Right now the standard for exchanging large volumes of seismic data is digital linear tape (DLT). Have you priced a DLT drive recently? Not only are high capacity tape drives expensive, there are so many different kinds of drives, but each one sells just a small number compared to consumer devices. It can cost hundreds of dollars just to pay someone to copy a set of tapes or transfer tapes to an external firewire hard drive. Having a consumer device like a Blu Ray drive in computers will make it much easier to copy large data sets from an archive onto a computer. As far as I'm conserned, having a larger capacity is more important than backward compatibility with recorded disc manufacuturing equipment.
HD DVD is a videophile format so this time the better format wins. Over on AVSforum many of the new JVC RS1($7000 projector) owners are viewing HD DVDs.
Time will tell but they seem to be having a problem actually making those 50 gb discs.
Other than enjoying sony squirming, I don’t have a preference at this point. Well that’s not entirely true, if I were to by a machine now, I would get a HD DVD because they have a couple of my favorite movies that are not available on BR.
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