Why is Blu-Ray better than HD-DVD?

Question

Why is Blu-Ray better than HD-DVD?

Answer 1

It's not. SONY was just smart (dumb) enough to take a HUGE risk and putting them in all PS3's. There were a lot more PS3's in homes than HD-DVD players. Studios only want your money. They can care less about the format.

Answer 2

plain and simple they were equal but hd dvd had better features and zone free discs. The sound is not superior on blu I don't know where these idiots get their info...I am still happy with my purchase! for 129.00 i got a player....for another 200 I have a 12 disc library. that by itself is as much a sa blu ray player that isnt a ps3! Hd upconvert is better too soo all in all I have a great hd player with a better upconvert for alot less money!

Answer 3

In terms of picture quality they are pretty much the same, but Blu-Ray offers better sound quality.

It also has discs with larger capacity, 25GB & 50GB discs vs HD-DVD's 15GB & 30GB. (this is a big issues more with computer drives)

It gained the support of studios who prefer Blu because of its future possibilities, where as HD-DVD was pretty much finalized with no room for improvement.

PS3 is able to play Blu-Ray putting 3.25 million players in households across America.

After studios showed overwhelming support for Blu-Ray, and the large number of players in homes thanks to PS3 retailers really had no choice but follow and support Blu-Ray.

Answer 4

Plainly, space.  It allowed for lossless or HD sound.   Whereas HD-DVD discs had to limit just to HD picture.

Regardless of HD-DVD fanboys crying right now, HD-DVD was never better and buyouts occurred on both sides firstly with the HD-DVD camp.  

You can't argue with advancing technology and that technology will always want the larger storage of space.  Should there ever be a media that exceeds Blu, it will take over, but I don't know if that's possible to produce.

HD downloads may one day come about, but it is in a far far future and not just around the corner.  Blu will rule for a decade or two.

Answer 5

its not. people that support Blu-Ray are complete idiots.

they supported pay offs and sony paid off everyone.

SAD .

the consumer was raped and the morons who support BR are too dumb to understand how they were probed.

Answer 6

It's not. It depends on what feature was important for you. Blu-Ray won the war thanks to their marketing strategy.  Everybody was thinking Sony was crazy including a Blu-Ray player in the PS3, increasing the cost while there is still no blu-ray games around; but that strategy helped them win the bigger price putting more than 3 million additional BR players in the market.

Blu-Ray has a higher capacity (only important for backup), and, at least in theory, sound (that nobody really can use because it requires a newer compatible receiver)

HD-DVD had similar video quality, good audio quality (5.1 or 7.1 digital), and one much better feature: It didn't have zones.

Zone encryption was invented to rip off consumers around the world. It didn't stop p****y, It didn't work with regular DVDs, and it won't work with Blu-Ray, but it is insulting that they are still trying.

Answer 7

Is not but it won the war, so go BR as HD is officially dead...