Blu-Ray or HD DVD?

Question

It's obviously another VHS/Betamax race. But what do people think in these early stages? Which will come out on top?

Answer 1

Neither, I still buy normal DVDs and not blue-ray, despite having blue-ray player and HDTV. Their not great. Not at £25 a movie
If you have an HDplayer with an HDMI connecting you get a terrific picture with normal DVDs.

Answer 2

Just to clear up a couple of points here:

1) Dual-format high definition players are on the market right now and have been for a few months. Samsung, LG and Toshiba all make players capable of playing both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD discs.

2) Sony supported Betamax (which failed). Sony supports Blu-Ray. You can work the rest out for yourselves...

Answer 3

Hi daza,

HD DVD (Toshiba) vs Blu Ray (Sony).

The battle rages and it looks like consumers will have to face a dual format much like the dash R and plus R DVDs.

Samsung & LG already offer dual format machines and others will follow. This probably means both formats will survive.

Both use interactive menus but differences are – Blu-Ray capacity is 50Gb and HD-DVD is 30Gb. HD-DVD is region free while Blu-Ray is divided into three regions. (Figures Sony will try to stick it to the consumer) A disadvantage to HD-DVD is they are not all hard coated as are the Blu-Ray. HD-DVDs scratch as easily as regular DVDs while the Blu-Ray are more scratch resistant.

Norm

Answer 4

Blu Ray appear to be slowly winning the war. Blockbuster has gone Blu Ray only.

In my view it's a better technology as it has a much longer future. Dual format players are very expensive.

Answer 5

we have hd tv but with sony bringing out blu ray i think hi-def is the beta max here.
funny you asked this my husband and I where talking about same thing earlier as he was saying lg are bringing out a double dvd player playing both formats next year

Answer 6

blu-ray, because of Sony's playstation 3 (and presumably all the ones to come) which have blu-ray player built in