HD DVD or Blu-ray?
Yesterday, Paramount and Dreamworks decided to go HD DVD exclusive and now HD DVD leads Blu-ray in terms of studio support 12-8 and still to date is outselling BD in Europe by a 70% margin with rumors that Warner may go HD DVD exclusive and Disney going neutral by support both formats (as opposed to being exclusive to BD). http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN2028331720070820 http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/format-war/state-of-high-definition-whos-winning-the-studio-support-war-291361.php Who do you think will win?

I have to say HD DVD because I have an Xbox 360 and that's what you get with it. Plus I think HD DVD is more like what we have now (just a little tweaked) so people will buy it, just so they wont have much change to deal with. Blu-Ray has no familar words in the name (like DVD) and it looks and sounds alien. Basically I think only extreme geeks will buy Blu-Ray. And the average person will buy HD DVD.

Blue ray is just polished shit really..
Not like it matters though, ever sence they made blueray/HDdvd compact disk. Yeah, its true. Now they make disc with blueray on one side and, would ya know it, HDDVD on the other. So....... now that there both on the same disc, does that make them equal? Ofcourse not.. HDDVD is still better. =d

Yes, but such disc (aka TotalHD) has not been made available to the consumer yet.

dude... all I have to do is pop in a disc of blueray and a disc of HD DVD into my monster of a computer and it will fray them together on another disc. If my 3500$ custom tuned built basically from ground up pc can do that, then.. how come its not been widely available yet?

Chinese government officials are making a deal with the HD DVD Group to provide HD DVD players at 'Chinese prices' (around $99-149) in return, the HD DVD Group would authorize China's HD Format (currently being called CH-DVD, name pending) to create their own State format standard based on the HD DVD infrastructure with players that play both the State format and HD DVD format. The agreement announced early this morning US time is critical, because up until now, China has been reluctant to participate in the high-definition video disc industry unless it had an opportunity to bring its own video encoding standard to bear: AVS, a codec which incorporates elements of MPEG-2, but is otherwise different from -- and some argue, better than -- other MPEG encoding standards and VC-1 in important respects. Now, the DVD Forum's involvement has evidently made it possible for Chinese manufacturers to produce components that play blue-laser, high-def discs using the Chinese national standard, though which are fundamentally compatible with HD DVD with only minor adjustments. 1.32 billion with a State HD disc format player that offers HD DVD capabilities and vice-versa (HD DVD players for the U.S.). ... and now the DVD forum has approved the 51 GB HD DVD disc. Sony's excuse of having more storage capacity is now out the window (51 GB > 50 GB), also the BD requires several GBs of the disc in order to install their intrusive BD+ protection... More bang for your buck when you factor HD DVD requires next to nothing in reserve to this disc with an extra gig total capacity to boot, the fact that it costs less than the BD-50 to produce (this is an advantage to studios), and its read speed is faster than BD and will always have this advantage due to physical limitations on the BD infrastructure.) HD DVD was designed from the start to have the ability to read a third-layer and once HD-51s hit the market, a firmware update will be available to update all HD DVD players to power the laser to hit the third layer. The Blu-Ray standard was only designed for two layers, meaning if BD happened to want to add an extra layer to its already incomplete standard, a firmware upgrade could not solve the issue. Your player would have to be replaced (and that would mean 4 million pissed off PS3 owners) The above mentioned with Paramount & Dreamworks going HD DVD exclusive amongst several OEMs announcing their support for HD DVD... This year has been a great year overall for HD DVD.

Newsday & The LA Times are reporting that Warner is on the brink of going exclusive with HD DVD (exclusivity may have already been signed for but has yet to be announced). Warner Bros is considering a "lucrative offer" to back HD DVD exclusively in the high-def disc format war. That's according to an article in today's Los Angeles Times. The Times writes that "Hollywood insiders" say Warner is "mulling over a lucrative offer that could bring such popular titles as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix into the HD DVD camp." The newspaper doesn't say, but the offer is presumably from Toshiba, the leading backer of the HD DVD format.

Who cares about HD-DVD or Blue Ray, the current stardard we have right now is fine. Dual Layered DVD's provide enough storage to play a movie, I certainty will not be wasting my hard earned money on this rubbish. Can you justify paying $30 for a movie when you could spend $1 and give food to a hungry person? No you can not, the amount of selfishness in the world is disgusting. Put it this way, you take $30 which could feed someone for one month, they are starving and going to die, yet a person has $30 and buys a DVD with it instead of saving someone's life. I regard this behavior as murder, cold blooded murder, if you do not give money to the poor you are a murderer. The bible says he who does not love his brother is a murderer, if you do not give money to poor and starving people, you are showing you do not love them, therefore you are a murderer and you are a murderer in a sense because if you donated money to them, you would have been able to save their life.

I've been getting into downloading 1080p torrents. I would actually be against purchasing anything physical, like a player or a disc, it is somehow more fun to just copy the information from it. I mean, you aren't buying these products to collect dust, you are buying them to play content. So if you can play the content without the physical player or disc, then why are those items necessary

Exactly Jaguar, in the future (very near future) peoples internet connections will be faster and will be able to stream HD movies from either legitimate sites for the fraction of a price of a HD today or simply download torrents which they are already doing with compressed formats. There will be no need to keep a library of HD DVD at your home, when perhaps an internet connected TV will have the entire history of TV and movies at a click of a button to watch anything which was made 100 years ago or as recently as yesterday from the internet. Mat 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: Mat 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: I think that verse reflects what media may be like in the future. Save dvd's at home thevies can break in and steal them what is rust to dvd's is simple obsoletion. How much is rocky worth on Beta cassette? worth nothing, all your hard earn't money you spend on dvd's will become obsolete and worth nothing. Movies will become like Itunes, 99cent movie downloads and once you watch it from their site, they will allow you to have it tagged so if you want to watch it again, you don't have to pay because you have already paid for it from the internet. Perhaps new release movies will be $4-$5 but thats better than $25 for a dvd.

HD DVD player (Toshiba HD-A2) at Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Amazon, and Circuit City for $98! Go buy one now, or you will not be able to achieve immortality... ;)