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Paramount, Dreamworks back HD DVD, drop Blu-ray
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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