scoot Posted March 16, 2007 Posted March 16, 2007 According to US trade magazine Video Business, Blu-Ray has outsold HD-DVD in North America for the second month running. The magazine's figures put Blu-Ray at an approximate 250,000 sales for February, with HD-DVD lagging behind on 125,000. Oscar winner The Departed was released simultaneously for both formats on February 13th. DailyTech reports that the film had one of the highest first-week sales totals for either format, selling over 20,000 units on Blu-ray and 13,000 on HD DVD. looks like blu-ray is going good at the moment. but theres always room for HD-DVD to come into its own stride Quote
Thom Posted March 16, 2007 Posted March 16, 2007 Entirely due to the gimmick factor of PS3 being able to play Blu-Ray. Quote
The Don Posted March 16, 2007 Posted March 16, 2007 I can watch both, and personally I'd rather watch a movie on Blu-Ray. To me the picture seems a lot sharper and I feel like I'm taking a step beyond DVD with blu-ray. Might also be that I'm using HDMI for my P$3... Quote
jitz Posted March 16, 2007 Posted March 16, 2007 Entirely due to the gimmick factor of PS3 being able to play Blu-Ray. Gimmick feature!? It's one of the few legitimate features the console has, it's one of the cheapest Blu-Ray players available, I don't understand how that's a gimmick. Quote
Thom Posted March 16, 2007 Posted March 16, 2007 I meant the fact that people have access Blu-ray player means that they're gonna take advantage of it by buying Blu-Ray DVDs as it's something new and, indeed, gimmicky. Quote
jitz Posted March 16, 2007 Posted March 16, 2007 Ahh yes, point taken. I look at some of my early DVD titles and cringe. Quote
Nemo Posted March 16, 2007 Posted March 16, 2007 I can watch both, and personally I'd rather watch a movie on Blu-Ray. To me the picture seems a lot sharper and I feel like I'm taking a step beyond DVD with blu-ray. Might also be that I'm using HDMI for my P$3... at first i asked myself: "what the fuck does don know about image quality?" then i answered: "nothing. thats what." the video quality is the same, dumbass. while we're comparing formats, here: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/feature/franken...qual-238336.php the main differences lie within audio quality and apparently extras. i doubt everyone whos buying blu ray movies can tell the difference between 192kbps and 256kbps mp3 quality let alone the difference between ac3 and dolby truehd. blu ray sells because of the ps3, not because of the quality. most ps3 owners simply arent that tech savvy to know the difference between the two formats. or care. Quote
Nemo Posted March 16, 2007 Posted March 16, 2007 you provided a false statement and tried to add reason behind it. your opinion card has been declined. please call customer service at 1-800-you-lose. Quote
jitz Posted March 17, 2007 Posted March 17, 2007 No, I'm going to shoot myself for this, but Don is right - Blu Ray does look better. There's so many more factors to take into account Sal than just what resolution the machine outputs; most importantly being encoding and decoding. With Blu Ray having much more space, there's less compression in encoding, so the picture that appears on your screen looks far better. I've seen the formats side by side in a high end Hi Fi store, on the exact same set up and can testify to Blu Ray looking better than HD DVD. Come on Sal, you're smarter than this - solely posting output resolution specs? You've lost your touch. EDIT - Oh and you don't need a great setup to see the difference aswell, they were on mid range Toshiba LCDs. Quote
Nemo Posted March 17, 2007 Posted March 17, 2007 However the majority (70%) of Blu-ray titles are in 25 GB single layer format while almost all (over 90%) HD DVD movies are in 30 GB dual layer format. blu ray discs have more capacity, yet hd-dvd movies are using more space. even if theres a possibility of blu ray videos being better quality than hd-dvd, they arent right now. more space is a factor that isnt even being used, therefore compression doesnt mean dick. ~300 reviews from high-def digest agree. i guess i should point out that i dont use either. im completely nonpartisan as far as this shit goes. fuck em both. in other words, im going down with the ship. as always. Quote
jitz Posted March 18, 2007 Posted March 18, 2007 There's still encoding and decoding methods Sal. Perhaps you should actually see the formats running for yourself before having an opinion. Quote
Aero Posted March 18, 2007 Posted March 18, 2007 if beta max is anything to go by, sales alone wont win the war, so i don't give a fuck :D2 ima just gonna wait til the war is over. Quote
Nemo Posted March 18, 2007 Posted March 18, 2007 There's still encoding and decoding methods Sal. Perhaps you should actually see the formats running for yourself before having an opinion. thats all you got? decoding doesnt mean shit since both mediums support the same file formats. as far as encoding goes, thats essentially the same as your compression argument - since compressing the video is part of the encoding process. Quote
Joe =/ Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 Does anyone really give a fuck which is better ? Quote
Nemo Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 anybody who uses either does. theres no buyers remorse knowing you chose the right format. Quote
The Don Posted March 25, 2007 Posted March 25, 2007 Too bad Children of Men isn't coming out on Blu Ray... Quote
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