HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray
Let the format war begin. In this corner, we have Beta...I mean Blu-ray. All joking aside, I came across this article while reading Penny-Arcade and it's worth checking out. I knew very little about the two formats before I read it and now I feel...enlightened.
"HD-DVD" sounds like the logical choice for the next-gen format, simply because the name makes sense. "Blu-ray" could scare consumers, even though it looks to me like the format to go with. I'm sorry, but you can't expect people to plop down $39.99 for hybrid HD-DVDs. The film industry already has a problem with piracy. And that's for movies that are less than $20. If we start seeing $40 price tags on everything from Wayne's World to Batman & Robin, then you can count me out man. I'll just stick with DVD.
Unless you just have play money laying around, I gotta go with CNet on this one. Let the two sides fight it out before you go either way.
posted by John @ 4:05 PM
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It was recently announced that Blu-ray disks will have capacities of up to 200 gigs. Although Im pretty anti-Sony and pro-Micro$soft I think MS is going to lose this fight. Ohh well, better luck next time Billy G.
I'm torn because we all know how much if a high-diffinition enthusiast I've become. I've found that as long as you use component cables and enable progressive scan (yes, you have to have component cables for progressive scan to even work at all), the picture is pretty damned good. At least good enough until one of these players becomes the standard and the prices drop down to normal people wages.
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