Why Do People Say Blu-Ray Is better than HD-DVD???

I just bought stargate sg1 season 10 off of amazon.com  ...downloaded right to my pc ..sweet. I thought i would have to wait forever for a dvd or never since it was cancelled.  blu ray shmo0ray , hd shme3dee its all about stargate season 10.   :P

blu ray shmo0ray  ftw though!

BluRay winning this format war is probably the worse thing that could happen to the consumer.

Having a major movie studio(s) owner and producer owning the means that give them the power to dictate how movies will be played, where they can be played, and rights of the actual movie is downright disgusting.

Not to take away from the capabilities of BluRay, I think both HD-DVD and BluRay are quite comparible, but now a major movie studio (Sony) ownes the means on how you can play/own/distrubute your BluRay movies.  This is very bad for the consumer, regardless of what fanboys on this site tells you.

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[QUOTE="rage8669"][QUOTE="m3Boarder32"][QUOTE="ramey70"][QUOTE="m3Boarder32"][QUOTE="rage8669"][QUOTE="DazKurupt"]HD DVD vs Blu Ray specs : rage8669

No matter how you slice it, Buena Vista is not Bluray exclusive.

It's still Buena Vista, it's just not Disney.

I believe Studio Canal distributes Buena Vista movies in Europe and Japan.

[QUOTE="Runningflame570"][QUOTE="dru26"]Personally I like the image quality of HD-DVD 's 720p, over Blu-Rays 1080i, but HD-DVD has no chance. Sony gobbled up too many exclusives.dru26

[QUOTE="Runningflame570"][QUOTE="dru26"]Personally I like the image quality of HD-DVD 's 720p, over Blu-Rays 1080i, but HD-DVD has no chance. Sony gobbled up too many exclusives.dru26

that's only for the ps3. standalone blu-ray players output 720p, 1080i, and 1080p. 

[QUOTE="henry_the_horse"][QUOTE="Orpheus_1986"]beta was the superiour technology...look what happend to that liitle technological gem.rage8669

Once again your wrong,  the cheapest HD-DVD player is $276 - $10 dollars with Google checkout.  Even with shipping and taxes included, it's still under $300.  You even get 5 free HD-DVD movies with the purchase of a standalone HD-DVD player,  thats a value of $100-$150 dollars in movies. 

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I was just wondering why Blue-Ray is so hyped up..... i mean iv heard it cant be read from as fast as a HD-DVD, and i know it has more space... but i dont think games developers could actually fill all that space up. But im not too smart so please tell me which one you like and why.

P.S. im not a Microsoft fanboy.... I have a PC, and a DS Lite... Im neutral!

2largeadults

ROFL all you BD owners keep saying HD-DVD is finished. But it couldn't be further from the truth.

The truth is TOTAL BD sales finally match TOTAL HD-DVD sales. They are basically neck and neck. How can you call the other format dead when it's sales equal the other format? According to the persons's logic who posted above me both formats are dead then...

HD-DVD will pull ahead this summer with waners combo disk and a strong line up of movies

March 27, 2007

    * Children of Men (Universal)
    * Digital Video Essentials (DVD International)
    * Happy Feet (Warner)
    * March of the Penguins (Warner)
    * National Geographic: Relentless Enemies (Warner)

April 03, 2007

    * The Good Shepherd (Universal)

April 10, 2007

    * Dog Day Afternoon (Warner)
    * Payback: Straight Up - The Director's Cut (Paramount)
    * A Scanner Darkly (Warner)

April 17, 2007

    * Feast (Weinstein)
    * The Game (Universal)
    * The Jerk (Universal)
    * School for Scoundrels (Genius)
    * Smokin' Aces (Universal)

April 24, 2007

    * Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Universal)
    * Failure to Launch (Paramount)
    * The Nutty Professor (1996) (Universal)
    * Planet Earth: The Complete Collection (BBC)

May 01, 2007

    * Alpha Dog (Universal)
    * Dreamgirls (DreamWorks)
    * The Hitcher (2007) (Universal)

May 08, 2007

    * Battle of the Bulge (Warner)
    * Black Christmas (2006) (Weinstein)
    * Harsh Times (Weinstein)
    * The Road Warrior (Warner)

May 15, 2007

    * The Fountain (Warner)

May 22, 2007

    * The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Universal)
    * Flags of Our Fathers (DreamWorks)
    * The Hurricane (2000) (Universal)
    * M:I-2 (Paramount)
    * Mission: Impossible (Paramount)
    * The Skeleton Key (Universal)
    * Smokey and the Bandit (Universal)

May 29, 2007

    * The Big Lebowski (Universal)
    * Dragonheart (Universal)
    * The Frighteners: Director's Cut (Universal)
    * Lost in Translation (Universal)
    * Midnight Run (Universal)
    * The River (Universal)

June 05, 2007

    * Coming to America (Paramount)
    * Trading Places (Paramount)

June 12, 2007

    * Born on the Fourth of July (Universal)
    * Bruce Almighty (Universal)
    * Daylight (Universal)
    * Liar, Liar (Universal)
    * Monty Python's Meaning of Life (Universal)
    * Sneakers (Universal)

June 26, 2007

    * American Me (Universal)
    * Being John Malkovich (Universal)
    * Bulletproof (Universal)
    * Mallrats (Universal)
    * Meet Joe Black (Universal)
    * Mystery Men (Universal)
    * The Watcher (Universal)

 

[QUOTE="2largeadults"][QUOTE="daytona_178"]

I was just wondering why Blue-Ray is so hyped up..... i mean iv heard it cant be read from as fast as a HD-DVD, and i know it has more space... but i dont think games developers could actually fill all that space up. But im not too smart so please tell me which one you like and why.

P.S. im not a Microsoft fanboy.... I have a PC, and a DS Lite... Im neutral!

CPM_basic

ROFL all you BD owners keep saying HD-DVD is finished. But it couldn't be further from the truth.

The truth is TOTAL BD sales finally match TOTAL HD-DVD sales. They are basically neck and neck. How can you call the other format dead when it's sales equal the other format? According to the persons's logic who posted above me both formats are dead then...

Exactly,  software sales are wayyy to close for either format to be finished. 

/\ IGN Begs to differ.

Quite substantially.
muscrat_01

they didn't mention internet connections, networking storage support persistent storage and implementaion of iHD versus BDJ or BD-Live support.

It's all about the titles and the quality of the transfer to high definition. Right now bluray has GREAT titles available where as hddvd has ok movies available. Who knows when this will change? Space isn't the issues since most movie studios will never use all of the space on those disks. As for the transfers hddvd has had better looking titles in the past but bluray is moving up. Once they rid themselves of that mpeg qulality they are using and move to VC-1 which is a much more superior format then they will also have great looking titles.

 http://www.highdefdigest.com/

More Studio Support and bigger space (TDK revealed a 200GB Quad Layer Disc). The coding on both HD DVD and BR is now the same. Previously HDDVD had the better coding. kage_53

If you read the sources on that 200gb Quad layer disc it cannot even be read in any of the Blue Ray players that exist today. The most the Blue Ray players can read today is 2 layers...

[QUOTE="rage8669"][QUOTE="henry_the_horse"][QUOTE="Orpheus_1986"]beta was the superiour technology...look what happend to that liitle technological gem.m3Boarder32

Once again your wrong, the cheapest HD-DVD player is $276 - $10 dollars with Google checkout. Even with shipping and taxes included, it's still under $300. You even get 5 free HD-DVD movies with the purchase of a standalone HD-DVD player, thats a value of $100-$150 dollars in movies.

i was talking about the current price on the gen 2 models, not the gen 1. gen 1 cannot be found in stores because they were replaced by the gen 2 models. once again, you're putting words in my mouth to make you sound smart, but all that is doing is making you sound like the idiot you are. 

[QUOTE="dru26"][QUOTE="Runningflame570"][QUOTE="dru26"]Personally I like the image quality of HD-DVD 's 720p, over Blu-Rays 1080i, but HD-DVD has no chance. Sony gobbled up too many exclusives.ramey70

[QUOTE="dru26"][QUOTE="Runningflame570"][QUOTE="dru26"]Personally I like the image quality of HD-DVD 's 720p, over Blu-Rays 1080i, but HD-DVD has no chance. Sony gobbled up too many exclusives.rage8669

that's only for the ps3. standalone blu-ray players output 720p, 1080i, and 1080p. 

[QUOTE="rage8669"][QUOTE="m3Boarder32"]

[QUOTE="rage8669"][QUOTE="m3Boarder32"][QUOTE="ramey70"][QUOTE="m3Boarder32"][QUOTE="rage8669"][QUOTE="DazKurupt"]HD DVD vs Blu Ray specs : m3Boarder32

No matter how you slice it, Buena Vista is not Bluray exclusive.

It's still Buena Vista, it's just not Disney.

I believe Studio Canal distributes Buena Vista movies in Europe and Japan.

buena vista is a subsidiary company of the walt disney company. had you done your research you would know that. also, after searching and looking through the studio canal website, link and the studio canal distribution website, link, there were no results for reign of fire (le regne de feu) on either site. face it, once again you fail. if anything, that reign of fire on hd dvd in japan is a bootleg or an upconverted dvd on an hd dvd.

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[QUOTE="dru26"][QUOTE="Runningflame570"][QUOTE="dru26"]Personally I like the image quality of HD-DVD 's 720p, over Blu-Rays 1080i, but HD-DVD has no chance. Sony gobbled up too many exclusives.dru26

that's only for the ps3. standalone blu-ray players output 720p, 1080i, and 1080p.

it's a failure on sony's part. the scaler it uses does not fully scale the image in both the horizontal and vertical directions like the hardware in the 360. the ps3 hardware scaler only scales in the horizontal direction. here's a link

HD-DVD will pull ahead this summer with waners combo disk and a strong line up of movies

March 27, 2007

* Children of Men (Universal)
* Digital Video Essentials (DVD International)
* Happy Feet (Warner)
* March of the Penguins (Warner)
* National Geographic: Relentless Enemies (Warner)

April 03, 2007

* The Good Shepherd (Universal)

April 10, 2007

* Dog Day Afternoon (Warner)
* Payback: Straight Up - The Director's Cut (Paramount)
* A Scanner Darkly (Warner)

April 17, 2007

* Feast (Weinstein)
* The Game (Universal)
* The Jerk (Universal)
* School for Scoundrels (Genius)
* Smokin' Aces (Universal)

April 24, 2007

* Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Universal)
* Failure to Launch (Paramount)
* The Nutty Professor (1996) (Universal)
* Planet Earth: The Complete Collection (BBC)

May 01, 2007

* Alpha Dog (Universal)
* Dreamgirls (DreamWorks)
* The Hitcher (2007) (Universal)

May 08, 2007

* Battle of the Bulge (Warner)
* Black Christmas (2006) (Weinstein)
* Harsh Times (Weinstein)
* The Road Warrior (Warner)

May 15, 2007

* The Fountain (Warner)

May 22, 2007

* The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Universal)
* Flags of Our Fathers (DreamWorks)
* The Hurricane (2000) (Universal)
* M:I-2 (Paramount)
* Mission: Impossible (Paramount)
* The Skeleton Key (Universal)
* Smokey and the Bandit (Universal)

May 29, 2007

* The Big Lebowski (Universal)
* Dragonheart (Universal)
* The Frighteners: Director's Cut (Universal)
* Lost in Translation (Universal)
* Midnight Run (Universal)
* The River (Universal)

June 05, 2007

* Coming to America (Paramount)
* Trading Places (Paramount)

June 12, 2007

* Born on the Fourth of July (Universal)
* Bruce Almighty (Universal)
* Daylight (Universal)
* Liar, Liar (Universal)
* Monty Python's Meaning of Life (Universal)
* Sneakers (Universal)

June 26, 2007

* American Me (Universal)
* Being John Malkovich (Universal)
* Bulletproof (Universal)
* Mallrats (Universal)
* Meet Joe Black (Universal)
* Mystery Men (Universal)
* The Watcher (Universal)

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