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It will be very interesting for me what's your opinion about that.
Which one do you preffer more and why.Good and Bad Things about these two systmes.

"What are HD DVD and Blu-Ray Disc?

Today's conventional DVDs can hold 4.7GB of information, but many want a higher-capacity successor to accommodate the larger data demands of high-definition video. HD DVD and Blu-ray both use blue lasers to read and write data; because blue has a shorter wavelength than the red used in DVD and CD lasers, information can be packed more densely on a disc and a single disc can hold more. Both HD DVD and Blu-ray drives are able to read current-generation DVDs.

It's no surprise why manufacturers want part of the industry. DVD player shipments, including next-generation models, will diminish from 113 million this year to 78 million in 2009, offset by a DVD recorder increase from 17 million this year to 74 million in 2009, said iSupply analyst Chris Crotty."

"What are the differences between Blu-ray and HD DVD?

Each next-generation DVD format comes in single-layer and dual-layer formats. For HD DVD, that means capacities of 15GB and 30GB; for Blu-ray, it's 25GB and 50GB. Toshiba earlier expected HD DVD to arrive this year, but now the company plans to launch products worldwide in the first quarter of 2006. That's about the same time as the spring launch of Blu-ray, eliminating the early debut advantage. Blu-ray uses Sun Microsystems' Java software for built-in interactive features, whereas HD DVD uses a technology called iHD that Microsoft and Toshiba have worked on."

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I would choose for Bluray. Much more data, i can burn my porn to bluray discs now! Just kidding.
But yeah Bluray has way more space to burn stuff on. And there's no hassle about dvd+ and dvd- things.

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As far as I know Blu-Ray can hold up to 60gb data. Aren't there dvds which are +- at the same time?

ndl wrote:Aren't there dvds which are +- at the same time?

well, most of the dvd-writers you can buy now are able to do both, but still some dvd player just work with one of +/-

IMHO what really matters is not technilogical strngth but market adoption. Betamax is a wonderfull example of this. I think it is too soon to be spending a ton of money on equpiment to read one format or the other.

-selket

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Personally, I really dont see either one making such a great start. It seems blu-ray is to be another "BETAMAX"-type project, and from what some of us remember last time, "BETAMAX" failed miserably as a media standard. In the end, because of that past failure, it may be a breaking point for people, and would cause the wide-spread adoption of HD-DVD as opposed to Blu-Ray

I agree with what Bill gates had to say. This type of media is on its way out. Hard drives and thumb drives are the way to go. Everything will be downloadable...we'll have no need for discs.

AW GDB

Simple - The one with less price per GB ;)

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i think HD-DVD will be more popular...because it will cost less than blu-ray and Microsoft and the others will fight against Sony's blu-ray

at the moment i'm not quite sure about this epic battle between IT giants :) both technologies have advatages and disadvatages but my main concern is that if both technologies will become popular home suers will lose because we will be forced to buy hd-dvd and blu-ray...which will cost a lot.

Blu-ray, since it will be implemented in the new Playstation 3 console, that I'm going to buy. But hell knows when it will come out and won't be THAT expensive.

Krezarian wrote:Blu-ray, since it will be implemented in the new Playstation 3 console, that I'm going to buy. But hell knows when it will come out and won't be THAT expensive. :lol:

What if some big software producer of game producer decides to sell it's software only on HD-DVD formats? what if movies will be on different optical mediums? what will you do ? buy a Blu ray player and a HD-DVD player ? ...