HD or Blu ray

[GhostMjr]

If you can't decide get something that plays hd dvd, blu ray and dvd. It's known as super blu and lg has the first player.

http://us.lge.com/superblu/

[Jewelz^]

ive already got blu ray so..:yahoo:

[Gone_Away]

Stay away until a final decision has been made on where the industry is going to go.

[Gorion]

Stay away until a final decision has been made on where the industry is going to go.

 
same oppinion

[delanvital]

same oppinion

Ditto

[T-Bag]

My bet is on Blu-Ray, it's bigger and back by all Sony's force (as well as the PS3 getting them into houses). But I'm not getting fooled twice. In the +/- wars I went out and got a + for around £120 and then Dual format comes out, since both were still available I didn't mind too much, then damn dual layer comes out.

My guess is even if Blu-Ray does win in about a year there will be dual layer ones come out so if you're looking for a burner steer clear for now and buy an external HDD. As far as video players go I can't see going wrong with a combi-player. (Though the longer you wait the more features for less money you'll get).

[TeaLeaf]

On a similar note, but marginally off-topic:

Let's not upset all the people who bought an HD TV and now find that the little HDMI socket on the back is now obsolete as HDMI 1.3 arrives in October..... :devil:

TL.

[Lee]

Thought this may be of interest. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/115802/blockbuster-backs-bluray.html

[T-Bag]

Damn, seriously? Lame, £650 well spent, (it still makes a good 32" monitor with it's DVI port).
I assume they're not going to get rid of the hundereds of thousands of people with HDTVs from their potential market straight away so it'll be a good few years yet though. I thought they'd agreed not to implement changes till 2012?

[suicidal_monkey]

for me storage is hard drives all the way now wherever possible. For work internet (VPN etc) accessible network drives are handy so long as I don't need instant access to the whole of a large file. Disks are used as they are perceived as having the tightest security wrt copy-protection, and are a simle method of distributing large chunks of data. Steam may have it's issues but IMO it's a great way to manage software purchases. No disks to lose, no manuals/packaging to recycly/chuck. We can already stream pretty good quality films over wires (eg cable TV) so why can't that go disk-free too? Just need a wider selection of films.

sure disks will still be in circulation for some time, but until Blu-ray / HD-DVD drive prices fall to the region where DVD-RW drives have been for the past few years...


...having said that it's probably only a matter of time before I give in and purchase a console of one type or another

[Carr0t]

That's pretty much exactly my opinion Monkey

[Evil Eye]

I wouldnt be so sure on blue ray. Hddvd has the advantage of being able to be manufactured on only lightly modified dvd machinery. Blu ray needs to have entirely new factories.

[kregoron]

My bet is on Blu-Ray, it's bigger and back by all Sony's force (as well as the PS3 getting them into houses). But I'm not getting fooled twice. In the +/- wars I went out and got a + for around £120 and then Dual format comes out, since both were still available I didn't mind too much, then damn dual layer comes out.

My guess is even if Blu-Ray does win in about a year there will be dual layer ones come out so if you're looking for a burner steer clear for now and buy an external HDD. As far as video players go I can't see going wrong with a combi-player. (Though the longer you wait the more features for less money you'll get).

I wouldnt be to sure of that, some of the biggest movie distributors, Universal, MGM and the US adult entertainment industry seems to be backing more and more towards HD DvD... due to the fact hd dvd's are much cheaper to manufacture, and the possible increase in storage is higher then on bluray disks..
and when this battle is finally over, we will prolly see a new kind of media underway... for example i heard a chinese firm just complete their first 100% working prototypes of a 1.5Tb disks.. that would prolly beat HD DvD and Bluray off the market quite fast

For example the Japanese firm Optware has already had holo cards and readers out in japan (industry only tho) since last yeah, 30Gig on a credit card size "disk", and a 1 holo card costs apperently around 1$ a piece technology just needs 1-1½ more years of development to achive a data rate transfer speed high enough to beat HD-DvD and bluray on that point ^^
Big plus for the Optware cards are tho, mechanical parts are limited compared to a CD/DVD/HD-dvd/bluray drives, which means longer lifetime for the disks! i would love that, then i wont have to buy new Starcraft disks each 6 months as i wear em down!

These my thoughts, not saying that either HD DvD or Bluray are crap, good concepts both of em.. just my 2 cents of wisdow (think i fried the rest of my brain)

[spiritus]

i just came accross a news that i wanted to share http://www.dvddossier.com/2007/07/a2-toshiba-hd-d.html
i want a HD-DVD for 99$ that would mostly add for HD-DVD sales to go up up and away... to bad it seems just to happen in the US. :crying:

[T-Bag]

I'm still of the opinion that Blu-Ray is taking off. The studios (-porn industry apparently) support it more (only major one studio is exclusive HD).
Plus the name seems to have stuck more if you listen to the press. I'm not buying yet though, not for a long while, and wouldn't recomend anyone does yeat till it's been settled properly with all studios releasing on one or the other.