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What are the blu-ray dvd?

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What are the blu-ray dvd?

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  1. Blu-Ray is one of the new video formats that carries HD video and surround sound.  Its competitor is HD-DVD.  Both of them are competing to become the next generation of DVD.

    Both of these formats require a new player, and ideally should be connected to a HDTV.  While they will work with an older, non-HD TVs, the picture quality will be no different than your current DVDs and DVD player.

    You really don't need to worry about blu-ray unless you have a HDTV - and even then, it would be a good idea to wait a bit to see which format will win.  Right now, people think blu-ray has the edge but HD-DVD hasn't called it quits yet.  Until a clear victor has been declared, I'd wait before spending any money on either format.


  2. Blu-Ray Disc, or BD, is a high definition disc identical to DVD except with about 5 1/5 time the capacity with a native resolution of 1080P. A BD player will play all of your DVD movies and on an HDTV they can improve the image quality of your DVDs. Up until just friday they were in a format war with rival HD DVD which was much the same thing only with fewer studios and manufacturers backing them. But as of Fridays announcement that Warner would make only BD movies after May '08 the winner of the war has been declared. I thought it might take a year for it to happen but now I think it will be VERY soon.

    HD DVD was hit hard and is scrambling to recover. They were surprised by Warners move to back BD and even cancelled the HD DVD event at this years CES.

    http://www.cepro.com/article/warner_bros...

    Warner chose to do this because Blu-Rays have outsold HD DVDs 2-1.

    Many people beleive that this spells the end of HD DVD and a win for BD, me among them

    http://www.avtruths.com/blurayvshddvd.ht...

    Furthermore Paramount has a clause in their contract allowing them to pull out of HD DVD in the event that Warner went Blu-Ray exclusive. Well since that happened expect Paramount (and of course Dreamworks) to switch to BD. This leaves only Universal for HD DVD. (Giving BD about 85% of the movies being made in Hollywood.)

    I know that HD DVD will fight back. Expect great deals and free offers from HD DVD. But realistically the war is over.

    Ultimately the only way for consumers to win is for one of them to win so that all of the studios will make HD movies in a format accessable to everyone. I also expect that once Blu-Ray wins (or HD DVD if that happens) you will see second and third tier manufacturers to make players driving the price to $100 by 2009-1010. Funai just announce one for $299.

    They have to make this happen or the window is going to close and internet HD movies are going to take over before BD has a chance to flourish. LG and Netflick have already announced an internet movie device and VUDU's machine is already available.

    Buy now or buy later but buy Blu-Ray.

  3. i can not really help out to good ,i have not watch one yet. sorry.

  4. They are High Def movies from Sony... the sound is more clear and the screen is really clear or theres HDDVD from Toshiba but i prefer Blu-Ray!

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