how much better is blueray?

Answer 1

We have yet another POINTLESS format war...This time it's the "COKE and PEPSI" of High Definition discs...On one side we have BLU-RAY and on the other we have HD-DVD...Each one has certain advantages over the other.

Blu-ray offers more room on its discs, more movie studios are backing the format and the information comes quicker off the discs...Now the HD DVD costs half as much, offers better video compression (MPEG4), has more titles and will play audio CDs...It's hard to know who will win this battle.

The ONLY perk to upgrading to EITHER of these Hi-Def disc formats is the SOUND...Both of these formats offer COMPLETELY UNCOMMPRESSED DIGITAL AUDIO...This has NEVER been available until now...The movie soundtrack is played back EXACTLY the way it was recorded in the studio.

The ONLY way to demo this sound is to hook up the disc player's audio ANALOG...A standard DIGITAL connection to current stereos will WATER DOWN the quality...This means an RCA cable for EACH of the 5 speakers (and sub) equaling a total of SIX...Then you have to select the UNCOMPRESSED AUDIO in each disc's menu as it will DEFAULT to the old-school sound.

Once you've heard this NEW sound quality you'll NEVER be satisfied in a movie theater again...But yes, on paper, Blu-ray is better...But Sony has supported all kinds of formats that failed...(Beta, Mini-disc, UMD, SACD)...All superior products but marketed poorly...I would wait for a DUAL FORMAT player so you won't be out $1,000 when this war is over.

Answer 2

Blue-ray has the capacity to hold 50 Gigabytes while standard DVDs can only hold 8.5 Gigabytes per side (High Def DVDs can hold up to 30GB)

For video games a standard CD-ROM holds 650 or 700 MiB (close to the same number of megabytes) of data.

Answer 3

but 1 drawback is if u scrath a 640/700mb cd its bad but you can live with it but if u get even a tiny scratch on a blueray disk thats going to make a massive amount of data unreadable.

Answer 4

blueray dvds look amazing, haven't seen a hd dvd to compare. but blue was is great

Answer 5

For now, HD-DVD has better picture quality on most discs, but both formats are inconsistent. The first Blu-Ray releases were pretty bad, but they have improved. Eventually, there will be no difference. See this article (it is a little old, but blu-ray has improved) http://www.projectorcentral.com/blu-ray_2.htm

Answer 6

Compared to DVD, quite a bit...

Compared to HD DVD, just a little bit...

Compare them on Wikipedia.org...
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