That’s not to say I don’t love HD, becuase I do. After watching for a while you realise how much more you are seeing, and how much better everything looks.

DVD was a perfect solution to a problem that no longer exists. Namely: How can we create a home video format that doesn’t suck, is more compact, and has better picture and sound quality. DVD changed the world, HD DVD and Blu-ray won’t do that.

Really, the whole war is a waste of everyone’s time and money. The hardware companies get rich off it, and eventually one format will go the way of the dodo.

DVD still remains as a solid format, so impressively better than VHS, and yeah, I’m sort of hoping the two will maybe wound each other in the war for supremacy long enough to give DVD a bit of a run, as it’s still going pretty strong. Then again, the High-def DVD formats might be coming along with the popularity of plasma screens, I’m not sure on that, though. I’m not sure about the image difference on such a screen.

eh, whatever… I rant.

Okay, so you are selling Blu-ray players like hot cakes, how many are we talking here? Are you including the PS3 in this sales number?

As for “a lot of HD DVD players only supporting 1080i/720p” that’s just horsecrap. There is one player that only supports 1080i/720p and it’s the lowest priced HD DVD player, in the UK it’s the HD E1, in the US, it’s called the A2 I believe. However, there is a VERY important point to make here about 1080p. With material shot on film, 1080i at 60hz is incredibly easy to convert to 1080p at 30hz. Meaning that any TV that can de-interlace, and has a 1080p panel will turn a 1080i movie input into a 1080p one. With great quality.

What’s more, 720p is amazing anyway, and only people with VERY large TVs will really see a benifit with 1080p over 1080i

So drop the “a lot” and replace it with “one”.

Blu-ray discs may well have uncompressed audio, but this is also perfectly possible with HD DVD. Indeed, if we count how many discs support Dolby TrueHD, you’ll see that there are 11 Blu-ray discs that have an uncompressed soundtrack. While there are many, many more HD DVDs that have those tracks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_true_hd

Also, you may, or may not, know, that the PS3 does NOT support losless audio over HDMI, although it will decode it and send it as LPCM 7.1 audio. The PS3 is the biggest selling Blu-ray player in the marketplace.

Amusingly, HD DVD mandates all players MUST support Dolby TrueHD, Blu-ray doesn’t mandate any support for either DTS MA or TrueHD.

As for your “Maximum storage capacity of Blue-ray (sic) being 200gb and HD-DVD (sic) being 60gb “, I have no clue where you got those figures. I have heard there may be a 50gb HD DVD for Christmas, Blu-ray, could in theory support 250gb, with a 7 layer disc, but then HD DVD could do 150gb, with the same layers. Both of which have been developed in labs, but won’t work with ANY existing players. Plus the discs would cost far too much money, look at writeable dual-layer DVDs now.

In conclusion, as someone that sells these things to other people, you should be ashamed that you don’t know ALL of the facts. It’s people like you that sell people crap they don’t want and doesn’t do what you say it will.

-Calviin

http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/21/michael-bay-responds-to-paramounts-abandonment-of-blu-ray-no-t/

You think he’d really give up all the money he’d make from Transformers 2 just because of this?

The only reason BluRay is outselling HD was because of content. It just happened that last year the biggest selling movies happened to be on BluRay. Coincidence. That is all.

No one expects the cost of production to stay the same forever, but it will not change until there is only one format. Demand drives price down, so why is there higher production costs on the format you claim is in more demand?

I haven’t thrown my support at either of them because the whole thing is stupid. I won’t buy either nor support either until there is a clear winner. The “right” choice may not turn out to be the winner.

Beta was clearly better than VHS, but it lost that war too.

http://www.digitalbattle.com/2006/06/23/blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid/