Comments on: HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray? http://www.blu-ray1st.com/blu-ray/hd-dvd-vs-blu-ray-5/ Blu-ray1st, the next-generation optical disc storage Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:03:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: jbone907 http://www.blu-ray1st.com/blu-ray/hd-dvd-vs-blu-ray-5/comment-page-1/#comment-3407 jbone907 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:48:24 +0000 http://www.blu-ray1st.com/hd-dvd-vs-blu-ray-5/#comment-3407 Well first of all, I want to clear up an implication in one of the posts above mine which suggests the PS3 is a poor-quality Blu-Ray player. The fact is that the PS3 is actually considered to be one of the best Blu-Ray players at ANY price. Spend some time on avsforums.com, which is full of professional reviews and full-time audiophiles and videophiles who know their stuff, and you will see this to be the case. Now, as far as potential... I give the nod to Blu-Ray. They not only have larger storage capacity (which essentially defines potential) but Blu-Ray is already capable of 7.1 channel sound whereas HDDVD hasn't grasped this (yet). But aside from that, it's still too early to tell who will win. Right now, and for some time, Blu-Ray has been outselling HDDVD at roughly 2 to 1. But the fact is, between BOTH formats only 3 million discs have been sold; they are selling at less than 1% of the rate that regular DVD's are selling. This means that if HDDVD gets their act together they can EASILY win this thing. Even though Blu-Ray is outselling; by no means is there a commanding share of the market. I have the ability to play both formats; and after a few months, I have roughly 5 times the number of HDDVD movies as I do Blu-Ray movies. It seems to me that generally, the type of movies I prefer are on HDDVD. But at this point... I guess I don't really care who wins; they are both excellent formats. Well first of all, I want to clear up an implication in one of the posts above mine which suggests the PS3 is a poor-quality Blu-Ray player. The fact is that the PS3 is actually considered to be one of the best Blu-Ray players at ANY price. Spend some time on avsforums.com, which is full of professional reviews and full-time audiophiles and videophiles who know their stuff, and you will see this to be the case.

Now, as far as potential… I give the nod to Blu-Ray. They not only have larger storage capacity (which essentially defines potential) but Blu-Ray is already capable of 7.1 channel sound whereas HDDVD hasn’t grasped this (yet). But aside from that, it’s still too early to tell who will win. Right now, and for some time, Blu-Ray has been outselling HDDVD at roughly 2 to 1. But the fact is, between BOTH formats only 3 million discs have been sold; they are selling at less than 1% of the rate that regular DVD’s are selling. This means that if HDDVD gets their act together they can EASILY win this thing. Even though Blu-Ray is outselling; by no means is there a commanding share of the market.

I have the ability to play both formats; and after a few months, I have roughly 5 times the number of HDDVD movies as I do Blu-Ray movies. It seems to me that generally, the type of movies I prefer are on HDDVD. But at this point… I guess I don’t really care who wins; they are both excellent formats.

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