Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD

HPDarkness · Post by **HPDarkness** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:57 pm

ScottyGEE wrote:In a way...You gotta just marvel at Blu-Ray disks...What with 50-200gb (I think thats what I heard) on one disk...

They can hold that much, But Hyper-CDR and Hyper-DVDs for HD-DVD Players are already in the making. They say that the discs can hold up to 10 Tera bytes. Thats 10,000 GB.

noscottno · Post by **noscottno** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:11 pm

Omg I heard about that, some college is making some special coating.

r0tten · Post by **r0tten** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:13 pm

i was just at best buy last night thinking this same thing over, hd-dvd's are $10 - $15 cheaper. basic blue-ray movies are $39.99 i'm talking with no extra features and a lame box, no extra dvd with special features or anything. i think i hate blue-ray.

Alchemist666 · Post by **Alchemist666** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:21 pm

My brother has a Xbox 360 and I have a Playstaion 3
I played a HD movie on my brother's 360 then I played the Blueray version I nticed it looks better than the HD and thats why I like Blueray

shade45 · Post by **shade45** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 8:01 pm

I like the idea of HD-DVD's better I personally think Blue Ray is gonna flop.

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:10 am

I think HD-DVD will win. Just a hunch.

TunesRus90 · Post by **TunesRus90** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 2:44 pm

Well its not all about quality as history has shown. Betamax had better quality than VHS (although it did store less footage I believe), and VHS still won. I have a feeling this could turn out the same way.

Xero · Post by **Xero** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:57 pm

Well just watched Ultraviolet on Blue ray it looked amazing! Blue ray lets you watch movies in 1080p best HDDVD can do is 1080I so if you are poor get HDDVD but if you have money and want the best visual experience get Blue ray.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:59 pm

HD-DVD supports 1080p last I heard...

Video

The HD DVD format supports a wide variety of resolutions, from low-resolution CIF and SDTV up to HDTV formats such as 720p, 1080i and 1080p. All movie titles released so far have had the feature encoded in 1080p (although the only player currently available that supports 1080p output is the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive), with supplements in 480i or 480p. Most titles are encoded with VC-1.

Ketchup_Bomb · Post by **Ketchup_Bomb** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 7:17 pm

Xero == Failure.

I want an HD-DVD drive for the 360, even though my TV doesn't support 1080p. >_>

DWells55 · Post by **DWells55** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 7:33 pm

The encoding method for HD-DVD has so far shown better image quality than Blu-Ray, despite a smaller disc capacity.

Xero, HD-DVD is fully capable of 1080/24p

Xero · Post by **Xero** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 7:54 pm

Was not aware that it supported 1080P was just told by someone that it was only 1080I. But the point is the blue ray does look amazing.

DWells55 · Post by **DWells55** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:16 pm

But HDDVD looks better and is cheaper

V0Lt4Ge · Post by **V0Lt4Ge** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:20 pm

If they both can go up to 1080p, then wouldn't they look the same?

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:23 pm

The difference is so little that the only way you would notice is if you were too busy staring at the individual pixels rather than watching the fucking movie.

DWells55 · Post by **DWells55** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:37 pm

Tural wrote:The difference is so little that the only way you would notice is if you were too busy staring at the individual pixels rather than watching the *** movie.

Untrue, from what I've seen there's a noticeable graininess in certain Blu-Ray movies because of the encoding.

noscottno · Post by **noscottno** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:39 pm

I haven't heard that. I have heard that is very crisp, which a lot of people aren't used to.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:45 pm

I could care less about HD or SD. I watch the movie for the movie content, not for the visual quality.

DWells55 · Post by **DWells55** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:52 pm

Tural wrote:I could care less about HD or SD. I watch the movie for the movie content, not for the visual quality.

I play games for the gameplay, but I don't want Halo 3 looking like an N64 game. You're right, visuals don't determine content, but they do add to it and enhance it.

Xero · Post by **Xero** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:23 pm

Well the movie i watched sucked but it looked so nice on the HD that i had to sit and watch the entire thing.