Hollywood Lines Up Behind Blu-ray, HD DVD

Good lord. There are still people without DVD players, and they are changing it again? -_-;;

Oh well, at least it will be a good opportunity to snatch up DVD's like I did VHS when DVD's came out...

A problem may arise if replicators back one particular side and don't sufficiently invest in the capital upgrades for the other. There may be shortfalls in production for certain releases, and mass confusion.

I don't see what all the fuss is about regarding the new formats anyway. For one, you have to have a $1000 television to even get the quality these formats are boasting. Why don't we wait until high definition takes popularity among regular tv programming before assuming everyone will want empty their bank accounts to get this technology.

Blu Ray disks will hold much more data for computer backup applcations than HD-DVD and will be supported by the Playstation 3. So if movies get split between Blu Ray and HD-DVD formats, Blu Ray still looks like the winner to me. I will get a Blu Ray player, computer drive, and/or a Playstation 3 as soon as any are available.

Well, of course once the format comes out it will take many months, if not a year or so, for everyone to accept HD content. Remember back when DVDs were released? I remember it took my local stores a long time to carry DVD content, and very few if that. Maybe once that time passes HD will be in many houses when analog TV is history.
The only thing I DON'T like about blu-ray is that it's made like a CD, being the content is very close to the surface, 0.1mm compared to 0.6mm HD-DVD, which is like a DVD. Ever noticed DVDs have two plastic layers on each side? A CD only has one. Be careful with Blu-Ray discs. One little scratch and you have see-through spots on your disc.

NO! I don't want Blue-ray! AAA! I just hope people don't buy a PS3 *shivers* otherwise I'm doomed.

purchase of PS3= major support of blue-ray

(revolution will rule anyways)

hopefully electronic manufacturers will release units that will play either or, but perhaps the licensing has not been allowed for that just yet.

NPC... ur an idiot! get over ur nintendo days... it will continue to lose marketshare to ps and xbox

Since the companys making the content can't get their sh*t together, stores should refuse to sell either brand.
I'm scared we'll get stuck with inferior product, like we did with betamax vs vhs. Blue Ray is a better product, look at the tech specs.

i can't beleive people are scared of technology...it is only a re-finement of dvd format not the anti-christ

So many times commentors have said: has the Industry (both the tech and the hollywood) not learned from Betamax vs VHS? Now it's gonna be HD-DVD versus BlueRay, and the losers are not only those Hollywood studios alligning behind the losing standard and the makers of the losing standard, but also the so called "early adaptors", consumers who run to the stores to be the first. I wait another year or 5 untill it's clear who wins. In the meanwhile I still enjoy my DVD player (region code free) with ripped DVD's from the net........ that's what you get if you make it so hard for consumers and if you create region codes to rip one continent (nowhere movies are more expensive as in Europe..... and I've been in the USA and Asia!)... I believe nowhere people rip more than in Europe..... that's the result....!

Any idea, when will they launch Blu-ray DVD and HD-DVD in market i.e. Player, Recorder, Writer for PC, Dual layer, Four Layers Discs?

i just hope that they'll bring out a player which can play all formats, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray and DVD... :)

I'd rather HD-DVD come out on top, it's not got such intrusive as blu-ray (which will require you to buy a new TV to have the copy-protection on), it doesn't allow content producers to do whatever they like on the film, such as unskipable adverts etc (like the copyright scene on DVDs today), plus Blu-ray discs themselves are very fragile and warp quite easily.

Plus existing CDs and DVDs will play in HD-DVD drives, a Blu-ray player would need an additional laser increasing cost.

Anything produced by SOny can't be trusted... Proprietary ATRAC3 format for music/video content instead of MP3 (or AAC/WMA)? WHo the F*** do they think they are kidding?

In time, the density of HD DVD will increase, so there won't be the capacity concerns that BLu Ray alarmists raise.

Both formats require a high end screen with a special connector. If have a good screen without the connector it will revert to normal DVD resolution. This is an "anti-piracy" technology. More like anti-consumer IMO.

People refer to VHS vs Beta, but this is worse, it is BluRay vs HD vs DVD and DVD will likely win, because for 99% of we will never see the difference (we don't have the proper TV with proper connector) and even if we did, it is not that great like VHS vs DVD.

I've seen a live demo, and the difference between DVD and Blu-ray was astounding! Yes, even better than VHS to DVD.

As for the capacity of HD DVD, if one looks at the specs, he'll realize that there is indeed a limit in how much the discs can hold. the new 45 gb is achieved by going dual-sided. yes, theoretically, they can go to 60gb but that would mean that you'd have content split between sides A and B

To Paul, who said, "Blu-ray discs themselves are very fragile and warp quite easily." can you provide any data supporting this because this is the first time i've heard of it.

I rather suprised at the passion that many posters have expressed. It's purely a media medium. I'll likely buy a PS3 because I've always liked the PS platform, though the Xbox360 has some compelling features as well. But my PS2 can play DVD movies, but I don't use it for that. I use it for playing games. So the fact that the PS3 is Blu-Ray really has less meaning for movie consumers, in my opinion. Blu-Ray has greater use, due to capasity, on the computer, but even that could be over shadowed by holographic disks.

Personally I'll consider upgrading when I need a new TV. Until then I'll enjoy DVDs which work just fine for me. By then the format should be stablized. I'll let the early adopters blow their money.

I have to side with blu-ray because it is the bigger bit bucket. Also it can be extended to 200Gig - enough for the next HD-Format: 4K images (1080P is 1920x1080 or 2K). I will buy into it when it becomes available. But when????

Some questions. I have not heard of a release date. And what movies are going to be available? If it comes out in spring - it will be too late as HD-DVD will have been out since christmas.
Also - the blu-ray website should by now have a much more exciting and involving graphic - there seems too little effort being made in trying to promote the format. There is a decided lack of energy. The pace needs to be picked up.

When people were moving to DVD from VHS then most of the movies on DVD are wide screen. So now you want buy a wide screen TV but in order to get the resolution that these new discs send to the TV you now must buy a fuckin HDTV. The movie companies can't expect people to switch over so quickly.

Considering the vulnerability of CDs and DVDs to damage from mishandling, will these new HD formats make use of a protective cartridge with a sliding shutter like the minidisc?

The new blue ray will have a protective cartridge,and the players will still work with dvd,cd

I think for most of us it''s a moot point. With the cost of hd-tv's, I think the majority of people will wait it out to see who's on top. Kinda sad that the best technology available will agian be trashed in order to make a buck. too bad blue-ray you lose.

yeah well liek all u noobs out there, playin your n64, cartridges, are for liek nintendo, and nintendo is for liek babies and people who pwn noobs should pwn a ps3 to get da best package ever. a multi platform system, high def games, high def movies, and can be used as liek a computer to pwn noobs at playstation and pc games,

remember me, teh pwnerer

Danny boy

Can anyone afford this? Companies should be researching for new formats only, vhs lasted 2+ decades, DVDs are relatively new, consumers won't be happy to spend another $300 after less than a decade on a new hd-player. Even with such capacity, what's going on those disc, we can only see detail to a certain extent, so that's space for content, driving up development cost charged to every consumer.

I’m a home theater expert and a computer expert of nearly 20 years. When I was 18, I remembered picking up my first copy of Stereo Review Magazine (now Sound and Vision) and when I was 24, I picked up my first issue of PC Magazine. Ever since, I’ve been reading and researching both fields of technologies. As an avid reader of PC World Magazine and many other computer magazines and stereo magazines, I realized at times that it’s better to wait and let the cloud settle from two competing technologies. But HD-DVD seemed superior in many ways over Blu-Ray. This time I'm not waiting. My choice is HD-DVD.

It’s obvious that Blu-Ray and HD-DVD technology each have its advantages and disadvantages: one is boasting superior storage capability; the other is boasting seamless integration of current DVD players and no cost increases at the DVD manufacturing process. Further investigations revealed Blu-Ray not supporting iHD and HD-DVD supporting iHD for movie home networking.

I disagree with anyone saying that it all boils down to content material, for example, consumers who would prefer more movie releases availability from several movies companies over the other. Not all Warner Brothers movies are good and not all Sony movies are good. If one movie is out that I like and would like to own but it’s not available in the one format that I had chosen, my feelings will be basically: “Oh…well.”

Sony has miscalculated terribly by introducing SACD hoping to gain market share and owning exclusive patented rights to this technology creating a format war in the audio industry and confusing consumers. Has Sony really had consumers in mind? No. Luckily, CD player manufactures came up with a great solution: make a hybrid CD player. And now, Sony is up to its mischief again with Blu-Ray.

Does anyone remember the DVD war that began in the mid 1990s when DVD technology in its infancy reported superior video and audio playback capability and a handful of greedy executives and companies wanted to cash in on that technology by introducing DiVx?

My prediction is that HD-DVD will win the format war. It’s a tried, true, robust, stable technology that will be integrated seamlessly into the consumer’s everyday home entertainment and computer worlds while providing superior true high definition content material of 720i, 720p, 1080i, and 1080p and offering high storage capability of 30GB(DL). Even game producers don’t even use half the amount of storage!

So what is it going to be? We as consumers are more smart, wise, and educated. We have to ability stop this nonsensical format war. Let us chose HD-DVD and get it over with.

i think we should forget about blue Ray and Hd Dvd and go with the Holographic Versatile Disc