Blue-ray or H.D dvd?

Question

I recently bought a playstation 3 which means I have the power to watch blue ray dvd's. I must say I was very impressd with the picture and sound quality however I was wondering in comparisson what an H.D is like. Also does anybody know which format is more popular ( I dont know any people with H.D players but plenty with ps3's) and which will come out on top in this war of formats.

Answer 1

BLU RAY 4 sure go to best buy and seeeeee the diff..

Answer 2

I got me a ps3 and A HD xbox 360 elite and I'm gonna say the PS3 will win as Blu ray can hold more data. And that, at the end of the day is what it comes down to.

Answer 3

Both are great, and like everyone's comments here I was going to wait until the Format war was over.  I work for a Major Video Processor company, and one thing I can tell you is both formats are equally as good as the other.  

The Big decision maker is going to be CONTENT!  Whichever format is going to have more titles will win the war.  To tell you the truth, HD-DVD is pretty cool.  I picked up an HD-DVD on Clarence for $99 dollars and right away got Transformers on HD-DVD for a total purchase of $124.  That was quite possibly the BEST Home Theater purchase I've ever made!  

I think the only thing the competing companies can do now is come out with titles that are CHEAP, and HD-DVD is going that direction.  Why would I pay 30-40 dollars for a Blu-ray when the same title in HD-DVD goes for $20-30 dollars?  As a consumer I wouldn't throw in more money at an expensive format if in a year or two it could be obsolete.  That's what makes HD-DVD so great!

Answer 4

The two formats deliver almost identical video and audio quality, and any technical differences (e.g bit rate, storage capacity) are either irrelevant for video or rapidly disappearing (e.g. hardware maturity). Even price is no longer a major difference. The fact is that while Blu-ray are selling more disks than HD DVD they are not pulling ahead.

The bottom line is that neither format is doing that well relative to DVD (Transformers on DVD sold more disks in one week than all titles for all HD disks in both formats combined ever) and the studios won't likely stop supporting both until there is a clear loser.

No-one really knows which format will "win". It will probably be decided by Warner when they decide which format to support exclusively ... if they do .. possibly by Q3 2008. If Warner or another major studio (Universal?) were to change policy the war would be over. Otherwise both formats will survive and consumers willing to pay a premium for HD will buy $500 dual format players for their niche HD format disks ... and the rest of the world will continue with DVDs until VOD / download takes over from physical media. (A bit like when music producers tried SACD and DVD-A as a quality alternative to CD, and MP3 came out of the woodwork and was the real winner ... proving convenience trumps quality for the majority of consumers).

Answer 5

blu-ray is better buy i bet a lot of people will end up with a hd dvd player especialy old people. alot of them still use video tape

Answer 6

coding for BD is far more complex than it is for HD and this makes the production of the BD disks lengthier and more expensive... this may be the killer issue for the fight between the two camps.

There is new release of 3rd gen HD DVD players now available which include 7 HD DVDs for free - this kind of marketing exercise is very hard for the BD camp to match - so the sales of HD DVD players may well get past that critical barrier.

BD is saying that they outsell HD DVD at the moment, but this is clouded by including the PS3 which is not always bought as a BD player. The HD DVD figures are for standalone players.

Going to be an interesting fight - it's really going to come down to the list of studios willing to support each format

Answer 7

I like both formats and think its a shame most people think one or the other is better. Its been said that HD-DVD is better selling. Personally i just want both formats to co-exist and be available to buy.

Answer 8

trick is to wait.. for those old enough .. we remember vhs and beta max..

joke was techincally beta is a better format

hold out for as long as possible is my advice.. same with tv's.. you can get "HD ready" tv's.. BUT there are 2 sorts... 1 simulated not TRUE HD... and go for TRUE HD =)