I'm with the writer. I absolutely love HD and wish everything was broadcast in HD and all movies/TV shows digitally remastered in HD. However the whole Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD pisses me off. They are almost identical technically, just the physical disc differences. It's corporate greed at it's finest. I side more with HD-DVD because rather than reinvent the wheel (physical disc) they basically just took the traditional DVD physical layout and added the blue laser to it. It has plenty of space for top notch HD viewing (especially with the new encoding formats), and should be less expensive across the board.
I'm sticking with my upscaling Denon til one of these formats die, or affordable hybrid players show up that can read both formats.
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Jim @ May 11th 2006 4:18PM
I'm with the writer. I absolutely love HD and wish everything was broadcast in HD and all movies/TV shows digitally remastered in HD. However the whole Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD pisses me off. They are almost identical technically, just the physical disc differences. It's corporate greed at it's finest. I side more with HD-DVD because rather than reinvent the wheel (physical disc) they basically just took the traditional DVD physical layout and added the blue laser to it. It has plenty of space for top notch HD viewing (especially with the new encoding formats), and should be less expensive across the board.
I'm sticking with my upscaling Denon til one of these formats die, or affordable hybrid players show up that can read both formats.