oy, vhs vs. beta max all over again. i say we shoot the head dudes of both sides, and actually let the consumer choose what they get to buy, for once.

straight up i can c blue ray's gonna dominate.

I'm buying one, only because you have to have it, to start wrk on circumventing the protection. My take on it: It'll be a huge software war, like DVD decryptor, and then we'll need to chip the player/recorder(s) to use the discs.

it looks to me like blu-ray will win out. the seem to have the edge now. they might just win because they have the cooler name. i mean come on, doesn't blu-ray just sound so awesome?

rooster i totally agree

blue ray sounds futuristic and kind of awesome
hddvd sounds like some geeky sh!t.

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what is going on these days i mean i dont mind that they come out with these new dvd's but cant they at least keep the standard dvd's out have movies come out on both hd-dvd and standard dvd cause whats the point in buying a new dvd player or a new hd-dvd drive for the computer not everyone in the world is going to buy this the least they can do is hold the standards dvd's for a yr and see how everything goes....

sorry i forgot blue ray as well lol

A cooler name? that`s so stupid.

lol u would be suprised what a cool name can do... my dad buys things based on the name... if it doesnt sound cool and top quality.. then he wont get it...we seen a 50 dollar dvd player by some company (i forgot), and he went with the 100 dollar one just cus it sounds good...

some people have more money then brains.

more competition better for the consumer but i do agree with rooster.

Go Reasons? You do great work and make our lives much better thanks for all of your efforts.

A donation pool should be started for you to buy a few burners to play with. If a DRM type chip needs to be replaced or modified you could use several to work on.

I think Blu-Ray will dominate, I hope so for the greater capacities, but I’m glad that HD-DVD is making a run for it unlike many others. If companies like Sony have a monopoly they will gouge the hell out of us for their product. On the down side you may have to have a Blu-Ray burner and a HD-DVD player until they come up with a combo drive for the PC. For SA units you’ll have to have both or if Reasons? Works out a fix we will be able to convert to Blu-Ray and only have need of a Blu-Ray player. Of course that’s assuming that DVD-BR’s aren’t $60 USD a piece.

yea

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If the blu-ray or HD format yields 24 Gigabytes per side, the only practical use of the extra bytes would be to use far less compression to write a movie. It looks like 3 times less compression, so that would be good. We could also benefit from less compression for sound. Laser discs allowed 1.5 megabits for DTS where DVDs allow for 750 kilobits. Improved video and sound would benefit us greatly.
I personally do not want to be faced with having to buy two movies on the smae disc. It would be bad news to have to pay for two films on one disc if the two films were, for example, "War of the Worlds" (the good one) and "Whose Yo Mama" or "Trembling Before God" (Crap I'd never buy). I would never pay more than $25 for a video DVD regardless of the technology.
I wonder if Block Buster would welcome having to change
to the new format? In a perfect world, the manufacturers would sell DVD players that played both red light and blu light discs.