I think hd dvd is better than blu-ray;anyone disagrees?

Question

I have been playing both formats and have found Hd Dvd movies(the software) to be better.

None of the HD Dvd titles I have , has the so called 'grainy scene' problem.Whereas Blu Ray titles such as Under siege, Black Hawk Down and a few others are plagued by this irritant.Under Siege is the worst thus far.

Answer 1

This is a rather academic subject now, but  as agb90 explained, both formats can use exactly the same codecs (WMV, VC-1, or MPEG-2).  

A lot of directors do want to preserve film "noise" to make their DVD transfers match as close as possible to the original.

Don't forget that some of the noise you see can also be player-dependent.  Not all players use the same video DACs or HDMI ICs so even if two players play identical discs picture quality will differ.

Answer 2

Any differences you see are due to differences in the movies themselves and/or the mastering, not the format. The degree of care the studio takes can make a big difference, but the original film quality is often the limiting factor.

This argument has been waged numerous times in the HD fora. The conclusion is that both HD DVD and Blu-ray are capable of giving virtually identical resullts. As an example "The 300" on HD DVD has a grainy look ... but it's intentional, not a weakness of the format.

The truth is that many movies don't gain much in extra detail from HD, they have more obvious improvements in colour, dynamic range, shadow detail, black level or fewer video artifacts.

You can't generalize from individual movies. The only reasonable comparison is to view the Blu-ray and HD DVD versions of the same film from the same master, using the same codec. Otherwise any differences are not due to any difference in the HD DVD and Blu-ray format, but how they are used.

The usual reason claimed for differences between Blu-ray and HD DVD are due to disk capacity limitation (30 vs 50 GB) forcing compromises on HD DVD. But even this doesn't hold water since most Blu-ray disks are on 25 GB disks and many that are on 50 GB disks don't use the extra capacity for the movie anyway. Furthermore, well done lossy audio tracks can be indistinguishable from lossless (except to a minute proportion of trained listeners).

Bottom line ... neither format is superior per se. But it's all moot since HD DVD has been discontinued.

Answer 3

Ya...Hd Dvd is the best Compare to the Blu Ray  Dvd