I'm not that tech savvy, so I have to ask: what are the main differences between BluRay and HD discs?

Question

From what I presume they are both basicallty the same, but the main difference is that they are branded differently...right?

Answer 1

blu ray can hold more data maybe 10-15 gb more, but now that HD is going to fazed out by the end of march blu-ray will be the only high def format you'll see.

Answer 2

for the most part you are correct.

Picture quality on the two formats are nearly identical, sound quality is a bit better with Blu-Ray due to the fact the disc's have a larger capacity up to 50GB, where a HD-DVD has 30GB. The extra space allows Blu-Ray to use better sound, even though a lot of the titles do not take advantage of this yet. Blu-Ray disc is nearly scratch proof, you really have to work pretty hard to sratch the disc.

The reason Blu-Ray won the format war was because of studio and retailer support, and the PS3

Answer 3

Bluray stores more data . But the BluRay players cost 2-3 times as much. But there won't be anymore HD DVD anyway.

Answer 4

It doesn't really matter now.....HD DVD is now officially an obsolete format.

But if you really want to know for argument's sake, the only real difference is that Blu-Ray has more disk capacity (50GB vs 30GB), Blu-Ray is currently incapable of making use of picture-in-picture as well as web-enable special features, something that HD DVD was able to do from the start, Blu-Ray and HD DVD have different movie studios and manufacturers backing them.....Blu-ray had the vast majority.

Anyone saying that picture and/or sound quality is better on one of the other is wrong. I have a dual format player that plays both HD DVD and Blu-Ray and there is no difference at all.