My feeling is that HD-DVD makes more sense on the video side, and Blu-Ray on the PC/computer side. There is more reason to have the greater physical capacity on the PC side, than on the video side. The 30GB DL HD-DVD discs are quite sufficient for movie titles, especially if they use mpeg4, h.264, VC-1 etc. And it costs less to manufacturer the HD-DVD media.
I am very tempted to by the Toshiba or RCA HD-DVD player, especially now that the bugs are fixed. What stops me is the fact that i already invested in a high end upscaling DVD player, and that hybrid players that play both standards could hit the shelves inside of a year.
I still say that both formats will coexist in the market and hybrid players will make it seemless to the consumer, much like DVD-R vs. DVD+R. So long as it works, no one will care which format the movie is, myself included.
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Jim @ Jun 14th 2006 5:15PM
My feeling is that HD-DVD makes more sense on the video side, and Blu-Ray on the PC/computer side. There is more reason to have the greater physical capacity on the PC side, than on the video side. The 30GB DL HD-DVD discs are quite sufficient for movie titles, especially if they use mpeg4, h.264, VC-1 etc. And it costs less to manufacturer the HD-DVD media.
I am very tempted to by the Toshiba or RCA HD-DVD player, especially now that the bugs are fixed. What stops me is the fact that i already invested in a high end upscaling DVD player, and that hybrid players that play both standards could hit the shelves inside of a year.
I still say that both formats will coexist in the market and hybrid players will make it seemless to the consumer, much like DVD-R vs. DVD+R. So long as it works, no one will care which format the movie is, myself included.