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[Black Deatha]

I don't know a lot about either format, but what little I do know is this, both formats are going to be competing for essentaly the same market, and both will support high deffinition video and can store way more data than a DVD, and both players are apperantly backwards compatable for DVD's, and both have lots of backing by various big name companys.

But my question is this, what are the differences between the two? I mean, why even have 2 competing formats when one will eventualy beat out the other one, especaly when there seemingly essentialy the same thing, like is one format going to store more data than the other or what? Seems it would be a better idea to just combine both formats in to one.

Either way, educate me, and anyone else that may be curious about the same thing

~Black Deatha

 

[cja]

Ridiculously simplistic answer is Blu ray holds more data while HD DVD is cheaper. They're competing because license fees and royalty payments could be huge. If Blu ray wins then Sony, Matsushita and Philips will gain most, if HD DVD wins then Toshiba, NEC and Sanyo will make the most money.

 

[maharg]

They're both blue laser based devices, but HD-DVD uses the same aperture (size of the pits on the disc, basically) as DVD, so mass producing both players and discs should be cheaper, since existing factories should be able to produce them with minimal changes.

There's no one who will particularily win if HD-DVD 'wins,' as it's part of the DVD Forum.

 

[Black Deatha]

Ridiculously simplistic answer is Blu ray holds more data while HD DVD is cheaper. They're competing because license fees and royalty payments could be huge. If Blu ray wins then Sony, Matsushita and Philips will gain most, if HD DVD wins then Toshiba, NEC and Sanyo will make the most money.

Oh really? what do they each hold? I assumed that since both are touted to be able to do high definition DVD that both would have a similar data capacity, seeing as 720p or higher quality video would take more space.

They're both blue laser based devices, but HD-DVD uses the same aperture (size of the pits on the disc, basically) as DVD, so mass producing both players and discs should be cheaper, since existing factories should be able to produce them with minimal changes.

There's no one who will particularily win if HD-DVD 'wins,' as it's part of the DVD Forum.

Cool, well, since I first heard of Blu Ray I thought it sounded cool (origonaly from the name alone) but seeing as I am a Sony fan, and they are backing Blu Ray I still like it more, :lol

Which raises an intresting question, what are the people of GAF backing?

~Black Deatha

 

[retardboy]

I want HD DVD to become a data format and Blu Ray to become a video format.

 

[Panajev2001a]

Ridiculously simplistic answer is Blu ray holds more data while HD DVD is cheaper.

I'd say the "being cheaper" argument is debatable .

 

[Panajev2001a]

I want HD DVD to become a data format and Blu Ray to become a video format.

Why ? Blu-Ray is the one with more space.

discs should be cheaper

Yes, but if they ship without even some nice hard-coating... I smell HD-DVDs in the trash: ~3.2x the pit cdensity on the surface and the same scratch and dust protection as DVDs ?That does not sound right.

 

[Diablos]

You know what this means... we will have to go through the whole long process of expensive Blu Ray and/or HD-DVD writers and waiting for them to come down in price, waiting for media to come down in price, waiting for faster writing capability, etc. Gives me a headache just thinking about it. I hope they settle on one and run with it, most people don't want to shell out the money to support both.