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Paramount, Dreamworks back HD DVD, drop Blu-ray

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Jeff AMN:
The disc capacity on Blu-ray is nice, but since both HD-DVD and Blu-ray use the same codec for encoding films, it won't ever make any difference in the film industry. Both movies use the same amount of compression.

For PC applications, Blu-ray provides a lot more storage, but I rarely even use up the storage on a normal DVD when burning stuff.

ChadTower:

That extra space would be used mostly for DVD extras, then.  I rarely if ever even look at the extras.

TOK:

--- Quote from: patrickl on August 22, 2007, 03:07:50 pm ---A week ago I read an article that claimed that Blue ray is outselling HD-DVD 2 to 1. So that would mean Blue ray has a much bigger market share already.

Personally I hope blue ray wins. Simply because of the bigger disksize.

--- End quote ---

This is kind of funny, because the weekend newspaper here says HD-DVD has 65% of the market.
Guess its all a matter of who's BS spin you're getting.  ;)

patrickl:
Indeed I was thinking more about the recordable versions of these disc types. A bit more storage space on them would be nice. I always have trouble that current DVD's offer not enough space.

What's the actual size for these recordable discs? I thought 25GB for Blu-Ray and 15GB for HD-DVD was the max, but I also saw 50GB Blu Ray recordables. Also, only Blu-Ray has rewritable discs?

PS3 games might benefit from bigger storage space too.

I didn't think about film size and compression, but if its the same codec and storage size is bigger, couldn't Blu Ray technically use a higher bitrate (and thus have a better picture)?

patrickl:

--- Quote from: TOK on August 22, 2007, 08:28:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: patrickl on August 22, 2007, 03:07:50 pm ---A week ago I read an article that claimed that Blue ray is outselling HD-DVD 2 to 1. So that would mean Blue ray has a much bigger market share already.

Personally I hope blue ray wins. Simply because of the bigger disksize.

--- End quote ---

This is kind of funny, because the weekend newspaper here says HD-DVD has 65% of the market.
Guess its all a matter of who's BS spin you're getting.  ;)

--- End quote ---
Lol, that is seriously strange. I forgot where I read it, but I found several references of Blu-Ray outselling HD-DVD. Here is one

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