Which HD disc do you support?

[Spikeanator6982]

well which disc do you support?, HD-VMD, BlueRay, or HD-DVD?

I personally feel HD-VMD is better. Its cheaper, quality from what i have read is great. mbps is between the other two.

[xUKHCx]

Blu-Ray has the biggest capacity and perhaps most importantly the coolest name :cool:

[Spikeanator6982]

Blu-Ray has the biggest capacity and perhaps most importantly the coolest name :cool:

well i'll give you the cooler name..bc i love it

but.. "VMD provides the ability to place up to 20 layers on a single disc with no quality loss in the content stored. This means capacity to record 100 GB or more." of course..is that proven that it can do it..or..they think it can..idk:D

[xUKHCx]

But 200GB > 100GB

Link (http://www.tdk.com/procommon/press/article.asp?site=con&recid=127)

TDK ANNOUNCES BLUE LASER DISC TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT 200GB CAPACITY

– Media Pioneer Achieves Massive Capabilities for High Definition Blue Laser Technology –

GARDEN CITY, NY, August 31, 2006 – TDK, a world leader in digital recording solutions, has reached a landmark in the development of recordable blue laser technology, achieving a groundbreaking capacity of 200GB. Surpassing existing optical media technologies several times over, a 200GB blue laser disc would double the capacity of TDK's existing 100GB Blu-ray prototype. One of TDK's new 200GB blue laser discs could store approximately 18 hours of high definition video (encoded at 24Mbps).

[illegalprelude]

Blu-ray. More studio support, more manufacture support, greater capacity, scratch resistant. Rumors have it that WB is going to go Blu-ray exclusive also.

[squeeks]

but HD-DVD has the cheapest players (http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-HD-A2-HD-DVD-Player/dp/B000IJV4BC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-3117063-0437501?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1193804995&sr=8-1)

[illegalprelude]

but HD-DVD has the cheapest players (http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-HD-A2-HD-DVD-Player/dp/B000IJV4BC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-3117063-0437501?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1193804995&sr=8-1)

price dosent matter currently and by the time all things are said and done and people really starting shifting over, prices will all be the same and then choose again. So price factor is no big deal.

[hulugu]

I'm currently enjoying a coffee as I ignore both formats. :D

[QuarterSwede]

Blu-Ray simply because I'm tired of two acronyms:

1) HD
2) DVD

[nikiski]

Blu-ray because I own a Blu-ray disc (but no player nor drive). :p

[CalBoy]

I voted that I'm going to wait it out, but honestly, I hope Blu-Ray loses. This just seems like something Sony should have figured out the first time around. Those who can't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

[yg17]

Blu Ray because the name is cooler :D

I know nothing about the 2 formats (OK, 3, but what the hell is HD-VMD?) other than names, and I choose Blu Ray because of its name :D

[macfan881]

blu ray biger disc space = beter details more specail features etc and more content for ps3 curently blu ray has 50 gig as max and 200 gig or 100 gig i belive is in the work cant rember and i belive blu ray is much sharper and sounds better overall i watched fantastic 4 2 this weekend and the scense with all the outer space shots were amizng

[Pressure]

None at their current prices...

[Spikeanator6982]

None at their current prices...

HD-vmd movies cost around $18 us dollars. the players are around 180-220 us dollars. thats not bad...the others i cant say any prices that i KNOW are right.

[killmoms]

To those who say Blu-ray looks/sounds better, this is 99% of the time just crap. Blu-ray and HD DVD support the exact same video codecs, and almost the same audio codecs (some differences there I suppose). On most dual-format releases they use the exact same encodes of the movies, so they look... exactly the same. Now, if one includes a higher bitrate audio track than the other, they could sound different, but that's up to the people authoring them. TrueHD and DTS-HD (two lossless surround audio codecs) are the same, for instance, because they're lossless.

Anyway, I will be supporting both. HD DVD has some exclusives, and I already have the player for my Xbox 360. I'll start buying Blu-ray discs when I have a PS3.

[gkarris]

HD-vmd movies cost around $18 us dollars. the players are around 180-220 us dollars. thats not bad...the others i cant say any prices that i KNOW are right.

Actually, the older Toshiba A2 DVD player is on closeout right now at Best Buy and Walmart this weekend for $99.

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/High-Def_Retailing/Toshiba/Best_Buy/Best_Buy_Drops_Toshiba_HD_DVD_Player_to_$99_Supplies__Very_Limited/1134

And you still get the 5 free movies...

[Spikeanator6982]

Actually, the older Toshiba A2 DVD player is on closeout right now at Best Buy and Walmart this weekend for $99.

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/High-Def_Retailing/Toshiba/Best_Buy/Best_Buy_Drops_Toshiba_HD_DVD_Player_to_$99_Supplies__Very_Limited/1134

And you still get the 5 free movies...

i wasnt saying hd-vmd was cheaper then either, tho i am pretty sure its cheaper then blu-ray. i was just saying HD-VMDs prices. unless you thought i was saying HD-DVD prices.

[gkarris]

i wasnt saying hd-vmd was cheaper then either, tho i am pretty sure its cheaper then blu-ray. i was just saying HD-VMDs prices. unless you thought i was saying HD-DVD prices.

I don't even know what HD-VMD is, unless it's a format coming out in your part of the world.

We don't need yet another format...

[tobefirst]

I'm going to be purchasing a new HDTV and A/V receiver this month, and possibly one of the optical drives, and I'm undecided which format I'll go with, or whether I'll just continue to stand on the sidelines and wait.

[twoodcc]

I don't even know what HD-VMD is, unless it's a format coming out in your part of the world.

We don't need yet another format...

yeah i don't know either......what is it?

[Spikeanator6982]

yeah i don't know either......what is it?

well..heres the companys website. http://www.nmeinc.com/

from what i understand, it uses the same red light/laser, as dvds do but can have more layers. They are saying up to 20 layers, with 5GB of data on each. currently it seems the discs are 4 or 5 layers.

[Rodimus Prime]

I do not think it is going to matter in the long run. It is going to go the same way as DVD+ and DVD- formates. Players and burners will just support all the formates and not deal with it.

[pjarvi]

HD-DVD.

Anything on Blu-Ray I want, I just import from Europe on HD-DVD. :p

[gkarris]

well..heres the companys website. http://www.nmeinc.com/

from what i understand, it uses the same red light/laser, as dvds do but can have more layers. They are saying up to 20 layers, with 5GB of data on each. currently it seems the discs are 4 or 5 layers.

It seems that only the Bollywood (India) and Chinese studios have signed up.

Seems like a "throwback" to DVD's - just adding more layers...

I think we need the blue laser systems (HD DVD and Blu-ray) going forward...

[Nermal]

HD DVD. I have a drive (somebody give me some Mac playback software!) and 15 discs.

If HD DVD drives weren't NZ$249 then I'd still be on the sidelines.

[CaptainWOW]

I have both a Toshiba HD-A2 & a PS3. I honestly don't care about formats, I just like movies. Especially in High Definition.

That being said, I do like the features HD DVD offers over Blu-ray. (At the moment anyway) PiP Commentaries are a very cool thing - though I guess once the PS3 gets the profile 1.1 update they'll finally be the same so I really don't care.

Where's the "neutral" option in the poll?