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post #16 of 22
2/19/08 at 7:13pm
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Originally Posted by DarkNWorn View Post
It's about time. Though I'm not a fan of Sony's strategy of keeping all things proprietary, I always wondered about the merits of HD DVD. Heck, what's the point of technological evolution if you settle for second best while the best is within grasp?

The logic was that the technology was perfectly adequate for the needs of HD content and that it would be much cheaper to retool existing factories as volumes ramped up. It's great if a disc can hold 200GB of information, or whatever sony's claims for the eventual capacity of the format were, but if you only need 25GB for your movie, then what's the point? BD had an edge in storage capacity but the extra space will likely just be filled with garbage that most people don't watch more than once, if at all, anyway.

I favored HD because the format did its job and it held the prospect of offering cheaper discs sooner. At this point, I don't really care. I just want to see faster adoption and I want all of my movies in one format.
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post #17 of 22
2/20/08 at 12:19am
I hadn't jumped on either bandwagon. Which one was better? I see HD being compared to the Betamax which was supposedly better than VHS. Was HD better than BR?
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post #18 of 22
2/20/08 at 12:31am
Depends on your concept of better - less intrusive DRM, no region coding, but less capacity. The video/audio were encoded for each format in the same codecs, though the players in the early stages were not great and the quality suffered. Current gen Blu-Ray/HD-DVD is typically indistinguishable. Some would say Blu-Ray was better because it allowed for more HD audio tracks (..) but I digress. I'm glad the war is over though I would have liked to see HD-DVD win. I can play both and have already started picking up more HD-DVDs. If comes a time that my players fail, I'll hunt on whatever the prominent auction house site is of the time for another.
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post #19 of 22
2/20/08 at 12:32am
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Originally Posted by Tck13 View Post
I hadn't jumped on either bandwagon. Which one was better? I see HD being compared to the Betamax which was supposedly better than VHS. Was HD better than BR?

It depends on how you define better. From a purely technological perspective, BD is better. It reads a bit faster and has larger capacity. If you're a manufacturer, HD DVD was better because retooling is much cheaper. For the consumer, cheaper manufacturing was also better. As far as playing HD movies is concerned, neither is better. Both HD and BD had adequate storage capacity for HD films.
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post #20 of 22
2/20/08 at 2:57am
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Originally Posted by GQgeek View Post
The logic was that the technology was perfectly adequate for the needs of HD content and that it would be much cheaper to retool existing factories as volumes ramped up. It's great if a disc can hold 200GB of information, or whatever sony's claims for the eventual capacity of the format were, but if you only need 25GB for your movie, then what's the point? BD had an edge in storage capacity but the extra space will likely just be filled with garbage that most people don't watch more than once, if at all, anyway.

High capacity BD disks aren't really intended for video use. That being said, it would be super sweet to be able to fit the entirety of a long running television series (take Star Trek for example) in HD on one disk. Just one more thing for nerds to invest in.
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post #21 of 22
2/20/08 at 3:02am
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Originally Posted by Dakota rube View Post
So, for those of you keeping score at home:

BetaMax - loser to VHS
MiniDisc - loser to anything else
BlueRay - winner

I have Sony still behind 1-2. What others have I omitted?

beta lost out eventually, but it was very popular in many countries for a long time.

digibeta and beta sp are hollywood industry standards for standard def.
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post #22 of 22
2/21/08 at 11:19am
Well shit... time to start scouring DVD resale places I guess.
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