Blu Ray Or HDDVD

[z_tahir1]

Originally Posted by titntin

thing like apple TV are not even in the same league and shouldn't be comapred at all.

They are not even close to hit bit rate 1080P uncompressed audio and instead have limited resolution, higher compression and seriously compressed audio. I'm not doubting theres a market for this low end quallity, but its not even close to a true high end HD format experience.

True, a 720p version of a movie downloaded through the Xbox Live Marketplace for rent looks more like the dvd in 480p. ITS so freakin compressed its not even close to 720p. It looks better than Standard def and almost on par with a decent upscaling DVD player but watching normal DVD's with a very good DVD Upscaler is really nice, sometimes I can't tell the difference between my 1080p DVD upscaler from Panasonic, in HDMI, over the Blu Ray player, but thats only in some real life movies. In animation or CG, there is a tremendous difference, and the uncompressed sound is jaw dropping with a good set. Home theater is an understatement.

An Apple TV Box would be a step backwards. I like having movie collections. With BLU RAY and HD, the quality of videos and eye candy suddenly becomes a factor in what your going to watch, and its cool to buy Open Season just so that when people come over you can show off your awesome set.

IMO Apple is sucking lately. I think the Zune kills the iPod, and I have both. I think the iphone and itouch are nothing innovative. I think a super thin laptop thats still as big and wide as a normal 17" laptop is a waste of time and If I was to get a laptop, it'd actually be good, with a Windows operating system, more than a gig of ram, and more than a maximum of 80 freakin gigs of HDD space. I think they are desperate with their gay commercials on Mac OS trumphing Vista, when its clearly not true. In one of their top 10 reasons to get a Mac on their site, one of the top 5 is that it can also run Vista.

[berlin]

No Apple TV is not comparable I was just mentioning the fact they are attempting to break in to the HD Market. I still say I'd prefer to watch my upconverted DVD's over a Blu Ray until it gets cheap and standard as the new disc type

[Canada2113]

i've been a blu-ray fan from the start. Once i saw that a dual layer blu disc holds 50gb and hd-dvd only holds 30 i was sold. Sure, sony has been a bit behind on some of the features, but that will come with time, sony has a lot on their hands. I would hate to invest alot of money in a lower capacity disc right off the bat.
HD-dvd wont die soon though. MS has (stupidly) invested too much money in it and they wont let it die without a fight.

[thedeathscythe]

I say blu-ray. so much space, the 200gb ones are sick!!

blu-ray is destroying hd-dvd imo. I heard disney is gonna go blu-ray, mightve been like a dream or something (I do that lots), and umm. yeah, not a fan personally of disney, well some stuff...but just think, disney is massive!! if they went just blu-ray, thered be tons of people that would go blu-ray (families, fans, etc.) and their stuff sells so much. theyre one of those companies, that unless they go in a totally opposite direction, which I dont think they will, they will never die. and going blu-ray isnt a totally different direction, its just taking a small chance.

[Frosty]

Well bluray has one . . ..im not sure what to do with this thread . . .. i will leave it be right now but blu ray has one the battle.

[pspcrazy]

Haha this thread is quite funny considering that HDDVD got totally murdered by this We'll just let this thread die with time.

[justinrakete]

Too bad HD-DVD died. I actually have an HD-DVD player...... Aww well ill just use it with regular DVDs until i get a Ps3

[Frosty]

If no one comment's in the thread for more than 5 days i will send it to the gravyard.

Anyway unlucky to you for getting a HDDVD player. . . . .I never even seen a HDDVD played it a shop before. . .

[coolie]

After hearing about hd dvd being a dead format, I went out and got me a hd dvd player. I can't wait for them to really lower the price of the hd dvd movies. I would buy so many if they are like $5 a piece.

[Faisal]

lolol welllllllllllll bluray has won.

its been announced that HDDVDs are getting scrapped.it has become the new betamax,this time sony prevails with bluray.

turns out the deciding factor were consoles since they were 90% of sales of both types.

xbox hav announced that out of 18million xbox sales,only 4% of the users bought HDDVD players compared to sony's sales of 10million ps3 sales and 100% having bluray capabilities.
on a seperate note it seems that through a 1 year release gap sony have caught up with xbox in terms of sales.this boosts the Blurays sellability.

so stock up on blurays and sell ur HDDVDs as fast as u can

EDIT: didnt realise people have stolen my thunder and already commented....