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Originally Posted by Letum
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No doubt. I don't like Sony anyway, so I doubt I own any stock in them unless it was bought with a managed fund or something.
Let's look at the advantages of the two formats now:
HD DVD:
1. HD DVD includes a Pentium 4 inside the player with 1 GB RAM, and multiple MPEG decoders to allow multi angle action at the same time – Blu-Ray can’t do this – they only ship with 1 decoder. You've seen some of the other things it can do like repainting cars and replaying the scenes in that one movie as examples of what you can do. Blu-Ray – you get to watch a movie – that’s it.
2. Less copyprotection on HD DVD – Blu-Ray is much stronger copyprotection which means you can’t rip your fav scenes or make backups on Blu-Ray as easily, and in the future, maybe not at all.
3. HD DVD now has more storage capacity than Blu-Ray
4. HD DVD is backwards compatible with standard DVD players so you can watch an HD DVD disc in my Rotel standard DVD player if you want – it just won’t have the quality. Blu-Ray discs only work in Blu-Ray players – nothing else. Why would you want to be format locked anyway???
5. HD DVD is cheaper to manufacture resulting in cheaper movies when purchased. The HD DVD can be pressed on standard DVD pressing equipment that is found in any mass production house with only some minor changes. No new hardware needs to be purchased for a pressing house - possibly resulting in movies costing about as much as cheap DVD we buy today.
Blu-Ray:
1. None - Capacity used to be its main advantage, but that is no longer an issue. There are only disadvantages for Blu-Ray now.
-S