The price is way to high on both. Either one looks good to me. But ill just wait until one wins out, then ill invest.

It's what we'd all like, but unlike CD to DVD and DVD+R to DVD-R, these are proprietary formats that don't like being mixed...

"It's what we'd all like, but unlike CD to DVD and DVD+R to DVD-R, these are proprietary formats that don't like being mixed..."

I guess only time will tell, but if I am not mistaken the current HD-DVD players play DVDs and CDs don't they. I am sure it can be done, it is just a matter of time.

PS3 will help blue-ray A LOT ( and the majority of studios now moving to Blu-ray ) Even disney it with blue-ray ( all the rich children will get a PS3 AND blue-ray movies ) and all the sony studios ( A LOT, even da vinci code is from a sony studios..., all on blue-ray ) so I'dd say the battle in the living room is already won by blue-ray. In the computer I don't know... Dell is with bd so I suppose bd have a great advantage!

ps: PS3 is nothing of this stats lol, you should have seen it at the E3. I'm really impressed with the ps3, I'll buy one ( same price as xbox360, because the premium bundle of xbox360 features exactly the same as the core ps3 without a blue-ray player, so ps3 win if they can give great games. and for no-where, final fantasy 13s is on ps3, as well as a gears of war killer(i soppose) UT2K7. N³ look real good, but I won't buy an x360 only for a game... (mistwalker is taking too long) ).

So I'm pretty sure the BD will win, ps: if you tought BD would cost more than HD-DVD it's not true ( maybe on pc, but for the movies not at all ), They're already showing prices for the bd movies ( I even saw a tv ad about a movie "now in dvd, and coming into blue-ray" :| Those movie will start at 19$ I don't think it's big money for new technology )

Anyway in the HD-DVD it's 15-27gigs and BD it' 53gigs...
ex: xbox360 have to compress their games to put in inside an HD-DVD, ps3 games won't have to be compressed at all, ps: hd-textures takes A LOT of space, that's why you'll never see a ps2 game with hd-textures, even x360 doesn't have all their textures in hd ( not a lot in hd ).

And if the ps3 sells 5m copies it's 5m blue-ray consumers whose lowering the cost!!!!

Also, the psp didn't have great games at start but sold out FAST, so I suppose it's more loyalty to the brand, like we have a ps1 and a ps2 and never felt like we were let down, so ps3 will sell, even without games.

So blue-ray wins! =D

That's pretty much what I expect to see happen, or atleast hope to see happen.
And Xbox360 doesn't even use HD-DVD yet, so PS3 will have an immediate advantage over Xbox360, being the first console to release true HD games.

couldn't say it better my self...and do u think if it's an option for the 360 for and HD-DVD player (external) do u really think people will pay extra for the external atactchment? Microsoft screwed up b/c they whanted to be the first to realease there console adn there gonna suffer with the limited amound of space they're gonna have with 4.7 GB. people are like this...if it dosen't come with in box there not going buy it...the ps2 had the option of a HDD, but no one bought it. (except for Final Fantacy online pack...i don't see that around anymore).

holodisc anyone?

hmm, the InPhase holographic media have more capacity, but the Holographic drives still not available,
ill choose Blu-ray! its have more capacity than HD-DVD. but i will not buy Blu-ray drives until the price drop and the write speed is increase to 24x.

and im not sure with Blu-ray and HD-DVD data quality. my MAXELL DVD-R when have many scratches, its already hard to read, but my old CD-R with more many screathes, still easy to read.
with the High data density of Blu-ray dan HD-DVD, maybe with just a few scratches, and the disc will be completely not readable.

Recently I have read that Macrovision has become the Impenatrable Lock (LMFAO) that will keep Blu-ray and HD DVD safe from those who would exert their fair use rights... oops... I mean those nasty pirate consumers! ;-)

Here's my take.
In the consumer media market (R, RW and such) HD-DVD will win mainly because of cost and backward compatibility of the drives. Where BR will win will be with the studios of course (more "stringent" security and major studio backing). The high cost of BR royalties and higher manufacturing overhead will simply elevate the cost and BR will not be mass adopted by consumers of the media (for R/RW purposes).

What you can fit on a BR that you can't on HD-DVD media due to capacity contraints is going to be marginal as far as media output quality is concerned and thus the capacity selling point of BR will be a non-factor. Ask yourself, simply because a movie is on a higher capacity BR disk, is it going to look any better than on an HD-DVD? Look at the actual feature space used on a production DVD9 discs today. If HDCP ever gets cracked, people are going to trash the extras and burn to HD-DVD...again cheaper, more versatile media.

Between these two formats, a plethora of multiformat players will arrive and we'll be back to the DVD-R vs. DVD+R scenario and it will not matter.

Personally I'm all for HD-DVD but until HD-DVD gets cracked I'll be content with upscaling my plain old DVD's to 1080i over component with my Zenith DVB318's old firmware.

I do agree that video quality will be identical because it's been demonstrated already that movies will never fill all the space on a disc, and there is no reason for them to.
You mentioned backwards compatibility for HD-DVD, but that is incorrect. The only way HD-DVD drives could be backwards compatible is with a second, red laser for reading DVDs, adding to the cost.

Regardless of which format you like, until they get off their high horses and make things affordable, I would definitely recommend following YYZ and just get an HDTV (a very good investment, believe me) and a good DVD player with HD support and component out ($100 or less). And my personal recommendation is to get a surround sound system as well :) They are becoming exceedingly cheaper and its definitely worth the money.

At the moment Bluray drives cosy $350 to MAKE let alone sell in retail, so PS3 it is. The 360 fanboys will buy the external HD-DVD drive, but the averahe consumer won't. More cost, more hassle. Besides, by the time you buy a premium xbox 360 package and add whatever the cost of that HDDVD drive is, it'll be about how much a PS3 is anyway.

blueray has more storage, but HD is going to be cheaper

i read a HD movie weighs in at about 15GB roughly,

and if the extra storage is just full of more special feature shite and HD is cheaper i will defo go with HD over blueray.

as for gaming, i think microsoft made a mistake with no HD. but id perfer to buy the 360 for games, and then either a hd dvd or blueray player for films.

i defitnly dont like the idea of having to have a blueray player in the ps3 or the COST !! so will probs buy when its cheaper, but i dont rush out and buy things anyway. next purchase for me is a 360 which i probally wont buy untill the first price slash.

sammorris:

This is true. You will also have the advantage of the Bluray player in the PS3. I am also already hearing advertisement on TV of movies coming to Bluray soon!!!

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They will, and more studios support that format I think.

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sammorris:

Yep, your right. The movie studios are in support of this new format. Congrats on you new rank of "AfterDawn Addict". I believe you have earned it as much as you are on here!!!

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Lol that's not always good to hear... I'm a geek!

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I know what you mean. This is a wonderful site and for people, such as myself, who need help time to time. It takes people like you to help keep it up along with the staff as well.

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And yet another set of red cheeks. Lol. Glad to hear it!

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Daemonzx6,

"Backward compatibility will be available with ALL HD DVD players requiring consumers to have a single drive their homes to play both HD DVD and DVD discs."

"Due to the structure of the single-lens optical head, both red and blue laser diodes can be used in smaller, more compact HD DVD players than for the competing Blu-ray drives."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_DVD

I do admit however that having this built in compatibility may add cost to the player units (I think only by a very small margin), but in the long run (consumer) media cost and player versatility will win out.

And the PS3's drive isn't small and compact? How much smaller do you want. As far as I heard a Bluray laptop had already been made too.

sammorris:

They have already gotten the Blueray laptops out!!! I know that Samsung has one out-$3500+!!! I'll wait. One other company has also released one but I don't remember which it was!!!

Probably Sony I expect.

Think of how much money that is to lose if you damage it! I'd never buy a laptop that expensive, for a start the battery life is usually about 40 minutes.

I actually believe it's a Toshiba.

And it was closer to the $4000 mark!!!

Ouch. Not for me then!