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Well the format wars is heating up yet again with Sony fighting against HD-DVD and Toshiba fighting against Blue Ray, which format do you think will win?
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28HD-DVD0%9Blue Ray0%14I'm satisfied with DVD and I don't care either way0%5The poll is expired.
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I'll start by saying HD-DVD will win simply because it is backwards compatible.
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HD-DVD simply because blue ray is soooooo old and not even new yet. And also because Siny will probably make mistakes all over the place and everyone will end up not using it Ã* la betamax, minidisk, memory stick, etc.Comment
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It's going to be close but I vote for blue-ray.
First it's also backwards compatible with cd and dvd.
Second Sony is going to use it in the Playstation 3 and that could have something to say and EA Games has also joined the Blue-ray camp.
But I really don't care which one wins, just as long as i can watch my dvd's i'm happy.
Then again the talks between Sony and Toshiba may end in a unified standard.
We will see.
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JTD:
Blu-Ray is NOT backwards compatible with DVD. It needs the DVD makers to re-vamp their entire production lines.
That being said is why I think HD-DVD will win. I want Blu-Ray to win because of the larger capacity. And whatever I want, usually never comes to fruition, so HD-DVD gets my vote.Go Bunny GO!
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Well according to what I could find on the net, the Blu-Ray Disc Association expects that every drive is backwards compatible with CD and DVD, and several companies has already demonstrated models that can read/write both CD, DVD and Blu-Ray discs.Originally posted by mmp121
I will agree that it's not a demand from the tech-specifactions that blu-ray is backwards compatible with DVD/CD, just as it's not a demand that a DVD player is able to play CD's, but companies making drives for blu-ray can not afford to have drives that can not read cd/dvd.
EDIT: Just found this article on PCWorld:
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,119665,00.aspLast edited by JTD; 28 May 2005, 01:48.Laptops: ASUS G750JM: Intel Core i7 4700HQ, 8GB RAM (DDR3-1600), Nvidia GTX 860M, 1 x Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD, 1 x WD 750 GB HDD, 17,3" FHD Screen, Windows 8.1 64-bit.
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My VHS is doing just fine.Join MURCs Distributed Computing effort for Rosetta@Home and help fight Alzheimers, Cancer, Mad Cow disease and rising oil prices.
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So is my stereoscope. So what?Originally posted by Umfriend
You must have a really shitty little TV if you can't tell VHS quality from DVD.. and certainly from HD.Comment
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Oh, I can tell the difference alright on my 10-yr old mainstream 63cm sony tv. Still I prefer to watch a good movie on VHS then rubbish on DVD etc.Join MURCs Distributed Computing effort for Rosetta@Home and help fight Alzheimers, Cancer, Mad Cow disease and rising oil prices.
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You two are talking about different things. mmp isn't being very clear, but what he's talking about is that the manufacturing of HD-DVDs can use much of the same equipment as DVD manufacturing, while BD cannot.Originally posted by JTD
Personally, I don't care about that. It's the difference between a movie costing $1.25 and $1.40 to manufacture - either way they're going to overcharge $18 for the movie by the time I get it.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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Name a single movie on VHS that's better than even the worst movie imaginable on DVD! Err, wait... nevermind.Originally posted by Umfriend
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I voted HD-DVD cause of this too.Originally posted by ElieTitanium is the new bling!
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I don't care. My main PC doesn't even have any DVD capability (second p2 266 has, but only because DVD-ROM costs the same as CDROM)
IMHO only early adopters should care...
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DVD's arn't backwards compatible with VHS, so we shouldn't be using them either?
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Of course it's not backwards compatible because the media is different!
HD-DVD player will be able to playback DVD media, but Blue Laser players won't be able to playback DVD's period!
I have over 150 DVD movies and my collection is slowly growing, so instead of keeping my legacy DVD player, I can purchase an HD-DVD player to enjoy both HD DVD's and all my 150 movies
That's why I voted and hope for HD-DVD to win.
HD-DVD's capacity is now 100GB, so it's pretty good!
Cheers,
ElieComment
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