enthusiast.hardocp.com — The high definition world is split between two camps: HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc. Which of these offers the better viewing experience and has the ability to deliver HD to your home theatre both now and in the future? And when the film studios and even the porn business get into the mix, what does that mean for the consumer?
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neoofthesithMar 29, 2007
I'm pretty sure digital distribution is going to win this "format war" in the end.
pabsterMar 29, 2007
"Not to mention that Blu-ray is future proofed..."Please. There's no such thing as "future proofed" in the technology world. Both formats could be dead tomorrow.
cherubimMar 29, 2007
Both HD DVD and Blu-ray have moved away from MPEG-2 codecs. Is this bloke stupid or what ?
msx2Mar 29, 2007
High Definition porno = bad, you will see all the flaws of the chicks up close. There will be no blurred or airbrushing of all the blemishes on the chicks body. A little bit too HD.
Closed AccountMar 29, 2007
This is a war against YOU, ME, everyone!It's about Digital Rights Management. I searched through the comments already posted and hardly anyone mentions DRM!The choices presented aren't whether or not you would like to choose DRM, but which type of DRM you prefer!They can make HD disc's (and HDTV's, too) without including DRM in the picture!!!WE SHOULD ALL PREFER NEITHER TYPE!!!DRM IS ABOUT RESTRICTING OUR RIGHT TO COPY OUR MOVIES AND VIDEOS THAT WE BUY!!!Right now, I can go to the store, buy a VHS movie and legally copy it. If I do this same thing with the same exact movie on DVD, it is currently illegal !!!Here's info very related to this:Don't Let Congress Shackle Digital Music<a class="user" href="http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy?id=221">http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy?id=221</a><a class="user" href="http://www.wikiyourrights.com/wiki/Pwned_by_the_RIAA">http://www.wikiyourrights.com/wiki/Pwned_by_the_RIAA</a>Read about DRM at Wikipedia<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management</a>There is so much more information you can find out about this!
humperdeathMar 29, 2007
@SquigglyP , I disagree. Technology and competition have sped up the 'price drop' of consumer items almost as fast as Moore's law. You cannot compare this to when DVD first came out. prices will drop very fast on these players. Plus, consider inflation. Even if the price of a blu ray player comes down to $200, thats going to seem much cheaper now that $200 felt 10 years ago.
trevogreMar 29, 2007
What are you talking about?.. there isn't enough content to tell which format consumers want. The only reason there might be more blue-ray sales right now is because HD-DVD releases are not to be found. This might mean that everyone gives up on it, but it doesn't represent necessarily lend to a format preference. I own both players and movies of both kinds. I'll by the content I want in whichever format it comes in without caring. Of course, I will by the format with more exclusive content first, but I don't care if its on 2 HD-DVD disks or one Blue-ray. I would also buy the product with a technically superior encoding if it was easy to tell what that was.
jigorokanoMar 30, 2007
I burn HD content from my TV to DVD's right now and have been for at least a year now. And completely legally via firewire from my cable box to my computer. It's the right to timeshift. Maybe you aren't in America. What I can't do this on is PPV's and onDemand stuff... 'till somebody makes a grey market firewire card.I take HBO HD movies and reencode them and cram them onto a single DVD. Cutting off at the credits I can usually get ~900 lines of resolution down from 1080. Not as good as a Blu-ray disc though as cable tv is lazily MPEG-2 encoded and gets nasty with lots of movement.There is nothing stopping me from doing this with a Blu-ray burner other than the fact that I don't feel like buying one.
staticneuronMar 31, 2007
"HD DVD vs BluRay can be compared to VHS vs Beta back in the day. Its far too early to tell. MOST PEOPLE on digg base their "ZOMG THEY WON" viewpoint based on PS3s sold. Who cares.. 300 million folks in the world and only what, 1 million PS3s floating around out there in USE (not counting ebay and UNSOLD stock). You're talking less than .5% of the worlds population."Sure but you don't see the comparisons clearly. Blu ray has more in common with VHS than it does beta. It is not proprietary it has the support of movie studios and various electronic companies... to furthur drive hat point the first blu ray player on the market was not a sony one. Blu ray is about Space. From the space you get quality. Beta was about quality first, sacrificing space and was undermined by vhs's longer running time.Try to view the situation without bias and it becomes clearer.