HD DVD vs. Blu-ray: who cares?

By David Carnoy, CNET.com on 14 December 2004

Since its 1997 debut, the DVD format has gone on to become perhaps the biggest success in the history of home theatre and consumer electronics. But will the current king of the video hill still be number one by the time it hits its 10th birthday?

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  • adult industry commented on 20/05/2009 16:04 Report abuse

    There was a comment above stating about how the porn industry will determine. Well, yah, most porn is plain regular DVD. I don't want or care for blu ray because I don't care about being able to count the amount of pubic hairs someone has. I don't need THAT kind of quality in video image!

  • are you guys educated? commented on 20/05/2009 15:52 Report abuse

    the only reason these blu ray discs have a 50gb capacity is because a blu "ray" laser is smaller than the red one used for regular dvd's, which means the tracks can be burned very very small, meaning more space. In order to actually save data ONTO a blu-ray disc, you'll need a blu-ray drive. And me, being someone who likes burning DVD's onto my computer, I don't even want to think about the horrors of compressing a 50GB blu-ray disc so that it only takes up 1GB of hard drive space. Also, I like DVD's because I REALLY do not care to count the amount of pores someone has on their face! That type of quality is useless.

  • Not stupid commented on 02/08/2008 00:23 Report abuse

    to the pshipleynz comment, we are not stupid, i have bought off burn direct for years and never had a problem and while i havent bought off their ebay store i know they are part of a company that has massive warehouses all over the world and have always given me my fix of import games and now blu ray and a few hd dvd movies since i got a ps3 and xbox360.
    i looked you up on google and found you post your rubbish same comment around all different forums and that you have been banned from ebay - i wonder why! maybe you are a sore loser competitor?
    i have been to one of their stores when i was in brisbane and the staff that work there are really decent, sure there may be some other places that carry imports but these guys have been around for as long as i can remember and always have the best range of games and movies anywhere in australia at least
    to anyone wanting a great supplier check out their website at www.burn.com.au and i am happy to recommend them without a hesitation

    back to the topic of which format, i really hate the fact that all the stores like jb and ezdvd took months to even get any hd dvds then dumped them quicker than you can blink! i see there are new players that can play both formats so this topic could almost be a moot point! one thing i will say is that hd dvd always required movies to be in high definition where as blu ray hasn't had this meaning some blu rays are not really much better than the dvd version!

    /end rant

  • Laidback commented on 21/05/2008 11:09 Report abuse

    Mechanical players are supsect to wear and tear, Solid state memory has and will advance in leaps and bounds, just take a look how much they have in the last couple of years.. Give it five years from now and both the hard drive and Disk players may be replaced by a solid state media, just be midful solid state hard drives are already being produced, albeit a little pricey at the moment//

  • daicare commented on 27/02/2008 07:38 Report abuse

    Blu-ray has won and HD has lost and all is good.

  • pshipleynz commented on 08/02/2008 20:11 Report abuse

    Dear Regions Suck!

    I do not recommend Burn Direct for purchasing HDDVD or Blu Ray.

    Check out their feedback and also their responses before you consider buying. Their User name is
    burndirect_brisbane

    Phone (07) 3252 1888
    Also Emails are
    jason@burn.com.au
    ebay@burn.com.au
    Your best bet is ....
    internetfraud@bigpond.com ... this is the email address for the police. I eventually did a google search and well .... it was scarey!!

    Check out their feedback and also their responses before you consider buying. Their User name is
    burndirect_brisbane
    Ebay's lawyers can be contacted via

    sydney@daslaw.com.au

    Dibbs Abbott Stillman
    Level 8, Angel Place
    123 Pitt Street
    Sydney NSW 2000

    GPO Box 983 Sydney NSW 2001
    Tel: 61 2 8233 9500
    Fax: 61 2 8233 9555

    Just do a google search and find out for yourself.

  • LAINQNKU commented on 02/02/2008 00:44 Report abuse

    Blue Ray technology is the great. HDDVD is very small as capcity!

  • Dlriom commented on 24/01/2008 10:28 Report abuse

    How many of you here can actually use HDDVD or BLU RAY? I just bought a new plasma a year ago and unfortunatley its not 1080i so a HD player is of no use to me anyway unless i fork out a huge amount for a TV.
    I believe that by the time HDDVD and BLURAY get there act together they will be outdated anyways.

  • wbreck13 commented on 17/01/2008 15:29 Report abuse

    x-box 360 can also play hd dvd's

  • Darth Hemsky commented on 15/01/2008 13:42 Report abuse

    At the moment it is quite obvious that blu ray will win, and that probably has something to do with the ps3. The larger capacity may also be a major factor, as that is apparently what many people are looking at. Either way, Blu Ray is outselling HD DVD almost 3 to 1, so i think (knock on wood) that we have a winner already. Time to pack up and go home DVD.

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