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It was inevitable...

What do you think will come out on top? And why?

I personally think and hope HD-DVD does, only because I can't afford HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.
Hopefully if HD-DVD does come out the winner, the other movie companies will change over, whilst Universal make most of the good movies, I think it would be nice to have all movies available on HD-DVD.

Blu-Ray will have the same fate as Beta Max IMO.

iGeo wrote:Blu-Ray will have the same fate as Beta Max IMO.

Quite.

I favor HD-DVD based simply on the fact I can get it for my 360 whenever I want, and spend far less than a PC-specific HD-DVD drive or a Blu-Ray drive.

Tural wrote:I favor HD-DVD based simply on the fact I can get it for my 360 whenever I want, and spend far less than a PC-specific HD-DVD drive or a Blu-Ray drive.

Agreed. My only major concern is the movie companies that are contracted or whatever with Blu-Ray.

HD DVD is cheaper Blue ray is better. My dad just got an HDTV and got the blue ray player for 800$ with it should be here on Sunday.

All of the reviews I've seen say there is no noticeable difference in image quality unless you're some overly critical person with the most overly top-of-the-line TV.

I don't have a HDTV so I don't really care too much.
I'd rather HD-DVD come out on top so it fucks up Sony...

ScottyGEE wrote:... so it *** up Sony...

Noice.
The Aussies are with us! Down with Japan! ;p

I too like HD-DVD better than Blu-Ray.

What about Red-ray?

Apparently 97 percent of the DVD manufacturers in china have announced plans to switch to this format in the coming years.

See:

http://www.evd.cn/newsalliance-En.aspx
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061206/ap_ ... na_new_dvd

sorry

HD DVD, if you watch a blue ray dvd it is way to crisp its horrible looking i saw on on hd for the ps3 it was discusting and of course 3 mins in the ps3 crashed their cr@p

HD-DVD, simply because it is a much more familiar name with the consumers, and is a much smoother name.

People will see Blu-Ray and not know what it is, but if you say "HD-DVD", anyone could figure out that it's an advanced DVD form.

HD-DVD because it's cheaper. =D

"Sony, on the other hand, has a track record of starting format wars, and losing them too. Beta, mini-disc, umd, and atrac have all been huge flops, but they just don't seem to learn their lesson because they're too greedy." -- phishbook.com

"What if you don't give a damn about watching movies on your game console? What if you prefer to buy a separate HD player? That's the rub. Sony forces you to buy Blu-ray. MS doesn't force you to buy HD-DVD. It's about giving the consumer options. Bargain my arse, as a consumer I prefer options." -- forums.adventuregamers.com

http://techdigest.tv/2006/12/consumers_favou.html

I prefer my 360 HD-DVD Player. I also own a PS3 and Blu-Ray just looks like a movie with a sharpness filter from Photo Shop. Plus I prefer Microsoft over Sony.

In terms of sales, HD-DVD is winning right now.

I like the name Blu-Ray better, but in terms of reality, HD-DVD is my pick.

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

And TDK recently announced that they have created a working experimental Blu-ray Disc capable of holding 200 GB of data on a single side, using six 33 GB data layers

I heavily dislike that a disk can hold more than my entire hdd...Makes me jealous

I preffer anything thats not microsfot and used by it and I personly like blue ray than HD

Aren't you guys forgetting the hd-blue-ray hybrid? It combains both disc formats into one.

Alchemist666 wrote:I preffer anything thats not microsfot and used by it and I personly like blue ray than HD

...so you don't like HD because it has the Microsoft logo on it, even though it's a breakthrough in home entertainment?

Hmmm this Sunday i will put it to the test with the 360 HD dvd player and the blue ray player.