Hd Vs Blu Ray

[Rick Hunter]

Can someone please explain the difference between HD and BLU RAY?

 

[evilkat]

Google is your friend:

http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/19/blu-ray-vs-hd-dvd-state-of-the-s-union-s-division/

 

[Seth=L]

Blu-Ray appears to be in the lead, even after they decided not to do pornography

 

[Rob Babcock]

Any format not used for porn should be discontinued!

 

[stratman]

Blu-Ray appears to be in the lead, even after they decided not to do pornography

Nielsen tracked the sales over the Christmas season 2 to 1 in favor of Bluray.

The porn industry is not going to be the big player this time, unlike the Beta/VHS war where they pushed toward VHS.

 

[Jedi2016]

For the record, Blu-ray IS doing porn, so it's a non-issue.

 

[Seth=L]

Oh, never mind. I heard they were once before and then somebody said it was a lie or something. I could really care less.

I still think that Blu-Ray is in the lead, better studio support and better marketed.

 

[stratman]

It is 2 to 1 as per Nielsen.

 

[mtrycrafts]

It is 2 to 1 as per Nielsen.

Is that from the beginning, or just this year?

 

[stratman]

Hey Mtry,

According to Nielsen it was the quarter, but overall the numbers pan out about the same if the whole year(2006) is tabulated.

 

[johnb554]

Well HD-DVD's are a lot more price effective. That is my only reason for going for HD-DVD instead of blu-ray.

 

[j_garcia]

The discs are basically the same price, so I don't follow you there?

 

[stratman]

Well HD-DVD's are a lot more price effective. That is my only reason for going for HD-DVD instead of blu-ray.

Are you saying retail or wholesale level? Blanks or preloaded? JG is correct, prices at BB for either format are about the same.

 

[Seth=L]

I have a feeling that Blu-ray will be victorious. I am not a Blu-ray fanboy, nor a HD-DVD ditto, but Blu-ray has exclusive support from 3 major studios (Sony, Disney and its constituates, and Fox), whilst HD-DVD only has exclusive support from one major studio (Universal). Spielberg's films, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean (Trilogy), Spiderman, and so many other top grossing films put Blu-ray in the spot light. And with movies like Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Matrix all being available on both formats at some point doesn't really affect either side in terms of winning the war.

People like to mention Sony's previous media format blunders such as Betamax and minidisc as if to indicate the demise of Blu-ray before the gates are open. The Blu-ray thing is well funded, and has lots of support. When Minidisc became available they didn't get massive amounts of support or external funding for it. The same can be said for UMD (Not sure it was intended to be used for much else other than the PSP) or betamax.

This is of course all speculation, and no one can be absolutely sure what will happen. But I do think that Blu-ray has the better ground.

 

[JacksBack]

Undecided

Hey all! Isn't there an alternative to HD and Blu-ray? I've heard about some up-converters on the market. Any thoughts?

 

[Seth=L]

Hey all! Isn't there an alternative to HD and Blu-ray? I've heard about some up-converters on the market. Any thoughts?

Welcome Jack, where you a member here before? (your username would indicate so)

No upconversion can match the true High Definition content that the HD formats are capable of. The HD-DVD players when released were some of the best upconverting players for DVD, if that amounts to anything. There were other formats that were designed that would compete with Blu-ray or HD-DVD but lacked funding or the process of production isn't efficient enough. FMD for example stores data on many layers but the discs have to many layers and are easily damaged, so the technoligy probably won't become mainstream.

 

[j_garcia]

There are plenty of upconverting players on the market, and while many of them are good, they don't quite deliver the same level of performance and you also don't get the benefit of the new audio formats which will not be available on SD DVD from what I understand. So, no there is no "alternative".

 

[solomr2]

I'm pulling for BD, only because it has higher capacity so it should result in better and more content.