Blu-Ray and HD DVD

This is interesting stuff. After looking at the Blu-Ray and DVD sites, it does seem to be shaping up into another format war on the video side. I thought Blu-Ray was synonomous with HDDVD but it turns out HDDVD is a competing format from the dvd camp.The support of the computer industry will be critical and IBM is on the DVD side and Apple just signed on with Blu-Ray, though Blu-Ray also has HP and Dell and has greater storage capacity than HDDVD. Both sides have an impressive list of backers so it's going to take time to resolve. However, since they both use blue laser, I'm guessing that the difference will be in the disc rather than the player?

Lets not forget about Holographic recording which can hold up to 1000gigs. I smell yet another format change.

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The computer side loves blu-ray for the storage capacity. Hollywood wants HD-DVD so they don't need to spend as much on changing manufacturing.

There are blu-ray players from Panasonic, Sharp, and Sony already availible in the Japanese market.

I'm betting on blu-ray to win out this format war.

I hope that whatever happens, the consumer is offered movies in a compact, high definition format that is affordable.

Icing on the cake would be a better digital audio format, one that would outshine CD, DVD and SACD. Probably asking too much, but I can dream.

I have an extensive collection of movies on standard DVD, so I hope the new Blue Ray players will accomodate the millions of people like me who have invested heavily in DVD's. My understanding is, however that the Sony Blue Ray machine will do no such thing, whereas the Panasonic version of this format will.

I suppose we could go through the hassle of recording all our movies to the Blue Ray disks, but how inconvenient is that!!! Sony and the rest of these goofballs need to think about the CONSUMER and not just their precious technology!