hddvd or bluray?

Question

which format is more crisp and clear?

Answer 1

This is a question that has been asked many times before. It doesn’t matter if I were to tell you that one’s better that the other… Someone will give you a reason why the other is better. So here’s my answer.

I went to Best Buy, Circuit City, Target, and Wal-Mart.
All of these stores have a HD-DVD and Blu-Ray section.

Target has 10 columns of Blu-Ray titles and 5 columns of HD-DVD titles.
Wal-Mart has 12 columns of Blu-Ray and 5 columns of HD-DVD.
Circuit City has 10 columns of Blu-Ray and 5 columns of HD-DVD.
Best Buy gave both formats the same space. (HD-DVD was displayed open faced while Blu-Ray was packed in side by side with a few laid open faced in-between).

What about Players?

Target:4 HD-DVD Players (including the Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive)
and 4 Blu-Ray Players (including the PS3)

Wal-Mart:2 HD-DVD Players (including the Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive)
and 3 Blu-Ray Players (including the PS3)

Circuit City:5* HD-DVD Players (including the Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive)
and 9* Blu-Ray Players (including the PS3)

Best Buy:6* HD-DVD Players (including the Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive)
and 12* Blu-Ray Players (including the PS3)

* The LG player is included in both totals as it plays both formats.

If you look at this info it look’s like Blu-Ray is winning the war. So are they?

There are good reasons HD-DVD are still not a dead formats yet. If you have not purchased a player you can still buy a few of the HD-DVD disc witch have the HD format on one side and the DVD format on the other.

The world is always better off with more that one choice. The competition helps lower prices.

OK this is not a defined answer. But it does give you more information to help you make a better decision.

Answer 2

All objective test have shown there is insignificant difference in video or audio quality between the two formats. There is far more difference between disks of the same format than between formats.

Both are 1080p/24 fps native resolution. Both support advanced audio formats (some people choose to upgrade more for the improved audio than the video)

The difference is in the price (HD DVD is cheaper at the low end (but 1080i not 1080p)). That said, there is also no appreciable difference between 1080p and 1080i either!

HD DVD players and disks offer more advanced extra features, like PinP, dual audio tracks, support for on board memory features, and on-line extras and games via an Internet connection. Blu-Ray does not offer any of this on existing players (although newer players will support all but Internet).

Both formats play and upconvert DVDs, but only HD DVD players play CDs.

That all said both formats are niche products (800 disks total vs almost 80,000 DVDs; DVDs outsell HD disks 20:1) and only provide appreciable visual benefit to consumers with relatively large screen 1080p HDTVs (and then only if watched from optimum distances).

Anyway, the choice --- should you want to buy now --- should arguably be on the basis of which format has more movies you want to watch. You can then watch everything else on DVD.

Personally, I'd wait for the 'winner' to be decided, hardware (particularly Blu-Ray) to mature, prices to come down and rental options to improve.

Overall I resent the industry manipulating consumers who are trying to foist a minor improvement on us at high cost and that most people can't even benefit from.

Edit: Must be a lot of Blu-Ray fanboys out there judging by the negative ratings! I guess the truth hurts.

Answer 3

They're both identical.

I'd personally wait at least another 6 months before making a purchase here. Right now the market is still too unstable. Next year we should be seeing fully functional multi-format players which at least will mean you won't have to worry about buying 2 different players just so you can watch all the movies out there...

Answer 4

Blue-Ray for sure, they seem to be winning the war against HD-DVD's anyways. Blue Rays to me personally seem to run a lot smoother then HD's when watching a fast paced movie or something of the sort.

Hope this helps!

Answer 5

Blue Ray and HiDef are both 1080p... it doesn't matter. I prefer HiDef because they are cheaper than a BlueRay disc. A blue ray disc player is expensive also.

If you want to be cheap, Buy an upverter. this device plays all discs at your choice of 480, 780 or 1080p. You really don't have to buy a hidef disc for this device either. Hi def discs play at 1080p automatically

Answer 6

Thanks Audio Installer. You did quite a bit of pavement pounding research and even if the questioner doesn't appreciate it, I do.

Thumbs up!

Answer 7

I would say blue-ray both both are Equaily good