The Format War of the Blue Laser - Hd Dvd Vs Blu-ray

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

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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!

The Format War of the Blue Laser - Hd Dvd Vs Blu-ray

Blu-Ray - Sony Wins The Format War With Toshiba

For the past combine of years Hd Dvd and Blu-ray technology have been competing to come to be the commerce approved format for next-generation Dvds.

Toshiba's Hd Dvd system arrived in the store in April of 2006, the same year that Sony launched its Blu-ray system.

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In February 2008, Toshiba announced that it would cease production of its Hd Dvd players and recorders - effectively making the Blu-ray system the new commerce standard.

There were a estimate of key choosing factors in Sony's extreme victory - one of which was Sony's decision to ship their Ps3 console with a built-in Blu-ray player. To date over 10 million Ps3s have been sold worldwide - compared to only one million Hd Dvd players.

The potential customer base is therefore an order of magnitude higher for Blu-ray in comparison with Hd Dvd.

And of course, let's not forget that Sony Pictures is one of the largest studios in Hollywood. Obviously they were always going to back the Blu-ray format and they were followed by Disney and Twentieth Century Fox. Although Paramount, Universal and Warner Bros initially went with Hd Dvd, Warner Bros changed to supporting Blu-ray in January of 2008.

Toshiba themselves identified the decision of Warner Bros studio to use the Blu-ray format as the final nail in Hd Dvd's coffin. Of course, the previously mentioned disparity in the potential consumer base must have had a major sway on the Warner Bros' decision.

The emergence of a clearly defined commerce can only be good news for consumers. There can be no concerns about compatibility with a single commerce approved and, the cost of the players will tumble as other manufacturers commit to the Blu-ray standard.

As enthralling as it is to watch two corporate giants slug it out toe-to-toe, there are some commerce analysts who feel that the "format war" is a meaningless sideshow. Many commerce insiders feel that more and more consumers will choose to download their home movies from either the internet or from their cable Tv suppliers.

The example of Mp3 downloads - which de facto have a lower ability than original music Cds - is cited to retain this argument. The key factor in capturing the consumer store for music and video appears to be convenience and instant access, something which Sony and other Blu-ray providers would do well to remember in the future.

However, for the foreseeable future, Sony have set the approved and consumers can spend their hard earned cash without worrying about obsolescence - not for a minuscule while at least.

Blu-Ray - Sony Wins The Format War With Toshiba

A Look at the Blu-Ray Format

The blu-ray disc is an optic format which is the main rival of the Hd-Dvd format in the race to become the standard medium for Hdtv. The battle in the middle of these two formats is similar to that of Vhs and Betamax.

Today the major Hollywood movie studios are evenly in reserve of both Hd-Dvd and Blu-ray, but in the electronics industry, most habitancy are in favour of the blu-ray disc.

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The main differences in the middle of these two recorders and players and optic disc technologies is that the blu-ray format uses a blue violet laser to write and read data rather than the conventional red laser. Red light has a longer wavelength than blue light agreeing to the Bda which is made up of numerous clubs including Panasonic, Pioneer, Phillips and Sony; this means it's potential for the laser to be focussed on the disc with far more precision.

Your standard blu-ray disc has a maximum storage capacity of 25Gb with the dual-layer format being able to hold up to 50Gb, which is sufficient for 240 minutes of Hdtv. Just like the Hd-Dvd format, blu-ray doesn't require any caddy and the recorders and players are capable of playing standard Dvd discs. The codec's that are currently supported by the blue laser format including Mpeg-4, H.264 which forms part of QuickTime 7 by Apple and the Microsoft Windows Media format Vc-1.

One of the main drawbacks of the blue laser format is that it can be very costly when compared to your standard Dvd player. However, as with Dvds of the past, the price of this technology should at last fall, particularly as blu disc format is likely to have strong competition in the near future with Hd-Dvd coming into its own.

A Look at the Blu-Ray Format