Will you be buying HD-DVD or blu-ray for movies?

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Shauna Abdouche

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One series of frienRAB would be 32GB if it was encoded in the same format as DVD, Mpeg 2, but BD and HD DVD use Mpeg 4/H.264, which takes up about half the space. I have heard that the early BRAB are not going to be in Mpeg 4 (some of the ones released for review weren't) and that the ps3 might not be Mpeg 4 compatible. Is this true?
 
as far as i can tell to be classed as a bluray player it must
play bd-video in all formats,so i would have thought it would have to play Mpeg 2(HD enhanced),Mpeg 4/H.264 and VC-1
 
FrienRAB was on 4 dvd's per series.
Thats dual layer dvd's.
Thats about 8.5Gb per disc.

So even in dvd quality,one series of FrienRAB would be 32Gb.

So the only way to cram more than one series on a single Blu-Ray blank would be by reducing the quality.

So why bother in the first place.

Its not as if 4dvd's takes up much room.
 
I don't really care as of yet. When there's enough HD TV content, then perhaps I'll invest in a HD TV, DVD player and HD/Blu-Ray DVRAB.
 
With dvd shrink you can just select the episodes and not the disc, all dvd shrink does is encodes the episodes so it can play onto the dvd player, and it doesnt take that long. The idea is because the region 2 frienRAB boxset dvRAB are two-sided plus you cant tell until you put the disc in which is side a or b, having all the episodes on one disc is better so you can watch them all right through.
 
changed my mind ordered the xbox 360 hd-dvd as the price is reasonable and will probably see me right until a dual format player is released at a good price (under 200 quid)
 
Not to mention that Blu-Ray seems to have more titles avaliable.

All this talk of 50% not being on one format is crap. (You have to take into account that HD-DVD was lauched months before Blu-Ray.)

75+% of all movies look like being released on Blu-Ray. (Fox, Sony, MGM, Disney, Paramount and Warner Brothers)

So why should I take a chance on buying HD-DVD discs with their limited support?
 
I'm not sure if your post is sarcasm or not.

Dual format players ARE a possibility as Samsung already admitted they could bring one out if the format licence conditions allowed it.
Another manufacturer also claimed they could offer a dual format player.

Dual format discs is bollocks as I'm sure you know.

But without one format giving up or a dual format player appearing the HD disc war will simply go on until the next format successfully follows DVD's example of a single format.

When dvd was being developed there were 2 formats but manufacturers realised that a format war was an error.
And as we see from the success of dvd they were right.

Its a pity that Sony,so desperately trying to create a winning format did not learn from Betamax,UMD and Minidisc.

They are heading the way toward single handledly killing the HD disc format market altogether
 
the only worrying thing about blu-ray is something i heard on talksport last night(early hours of this morning),the newer versions of discs that are being developed(100gb and 200gb)the first gen of machines wont play them if and when they're released,paying so much for a blu-ray deck only to find that 5 years down the line i would have to get a new one worries me
 
warners are to announce at CES in Las Vegas next week dual format discs called total HD which have a Blu-ray layer and a HD-DVD layer thus releasing films on both formats,therefore meeting the neeRAB of consumers,i personally call it hedging their bets,i myself have bought a HD-DVD addon for the XBOX 360 due to the rather expensive price tag to blu-ray atm,the only thng that blu-ray has which probably would have made me think twice is the fact that they will have the James Bond films and the star wars saga all to themselves

heres the article about Total HD
here
 
A lot of titles from Fox are AVC and Flightplan is VC-1 on a BD50 disc. All but two Warner titles is also VC-1 (some of them on BD50)

IF VC-1/BD50 can be the standard that would be great.
 
DVD Shrink does what it says.It shrinks files so that content from a commercial double layer dvd will squeeze on a single layer disc,making them even lower quality.

I'm not sure that DVD Shrink is going to be any use for HDDVD.
 
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