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Would i be better off buying a blu ray or hd dvd player?

Which has the most movies available in Australia?

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One Response to “Would i be better off buying a blu ray or hd dvd player?”

  1. First question is would you benefit from either?

    If you have a 1080p HDTV, larger than about 40" you will benefit. Anything less and you may or may not get a significant improvement in picture quality over a normal DVD on a good upscaling player (e.g. Oppo 981).

    A few considerations:

    - Video and audio quality of the two formats are indistinguishable.

    - Neither format are going to take over from DVD anytime soon (years).

    - There are about equal numbers of movies in each format but the two formats are incompatible, so unless you plan to buy both types of players (or a dual format model) you would be wise to pick based on which format supports more of your type of movies. See the statistics links at upper centre on the linked page for a complete list of each.

    - HD DVD is less expensive (hardware) but disks are about the same price.

    - Either format player will play and upconvert normal DVDs (so a low end HD DVD player would make a good upconverting DVD player that also happens to play HD DVDs, for the same price as a good DVD player!).

    - Blu-Ray has region coding, while HD DVD does not. This could impact you, since Australia is lumped with Europe and separate from North America.

    - I’m in Canada so can’t tell you anything about availability of either format in Australia.

    Personally, unless you are really keen and can aford to pick what may eventually be a losing format I’d wait. prices can only come down, and — particulalry in the case of Blu-Ray hardware can only get better (most players currently on the market are only partially functional (they play the movie but don’t support extras well).

    Hope this helps.

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