Take the bad with the good... To get that improved fidelity, you have to decide in the middle of whether a Blu-ray player or an Hd Dvd player, and you won't be able to play sure studios' movies on whether one. For example, if you're a sci-fi fan and want to watch 2001: The Space Odyssey (Sony Pictures), you'll need a Blu-ray player, but if you want to watch Van Helsing (Universal) you'll need an Hd Dvd player. Yes, there are combo players available, but they currently cost more than undoubtedly purchasing two players, one for each format!
Blu-ray and Hd Dvd unfortunately are not incompatible formats. What does this mean to you? It means that no appropriate Blu-ray player will be able to play Hd Dvd discs, and no appropriate Hd Dvd player can play Blu-ray discs (with the irregularity of pricy combo players of course). If a movie comes out in one format, there's no warrant that it will be ready in the other. sure studios could release movies in both formats, but you'll still have to be just not to buy the wrong version of the movie. Adding to the frustration is the fact that the capabilities and features of the two formats are far more similar than they are different
Blu-ray
Hd Dvd
The Upside: Entry-level players are much more affordable than Blu-ray units; tighter specification means that all players have a more consistent feature set; some movies include standard-Dvd version on the same disc.
The Downside: Studio retain slight to just Universal and Paramount, which means no Hd Dvd movies from Columbia, Mgm, Fox, Disney, or Warner (after May 2008); Xbox 360 requires an add-on accessory to play Hd Dvd discs.
Blu-ray
Upside: PlayStation 3 plays Blu-ray movies; Blu-ray has retain of 70 percent of movie studios; Current Blu-ray discs can hold more data or video than Hd Dvd counterparts.
Downside: Blu-ray players are more costly than their Hd Dvd counterparts; retain for audio can vary from player to player; different profiles can cause blurring over extra feature support.
Winner?
The format war was essentially tied until Warner Studios decided to come to be Blu-ray exclusive in early 2008. Now Blu-ray has the retain for 70 percent of movie studios, including; Sony Pictures- Mgm/Columbia TriStar, Disney- along with Touchstone and Miramax, Fox, Warner, and Lions Gate.
Blu-ray also has an benefit in raw capacity (50Gb vs. Hd Dvd's 30Gb), and while that hasn't made much of a incompatibility in the vast majority of titles, the extra features of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix were in Hd on Blu-ray, but only in standard-def on Hd Dvd. We can only expect more of this as high-def extra features, which examine much more capacity on the disc, come to be more prevalent.
Conclusion
Wait it out, there is no true winner until one backs down. Plus, we all know how technology can change on a dime!
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