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Originally Posted by vick vega
It is true that blu-ray is better than hd dvd, and I plan on buying a blu-ray player, but from my investigating it looks like the holographic versatile, hvd, has a much larger storage capacity.... terabytes not gigabytes possibly someday enabling a holographic video to be recorded. The smaller the diameter of the ray the more info can be stored. Hvd uses an ultraviolet light which is way smaller than the blu-ray.
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Not much past rumors about HVD out there:
Sure, as long as you're willing to spend over $120 for a movie, and $15K for the drive.
HVD is just a theoretical data format at this point. It won't be a movie format until there's a spec for codecs, interactivity, DRM, etcetera. It's like saying DVD-ROM is a better consumer video format than VCD.
Honestly, I'll believe it when I actually see it. To me, it's barely vaporware as is.
The spec of BD is designed to have up to 8 layers and 200g so it WILL happen and is much more future proof than HDDVD.
As it stands HDDVD barley has spec to keep up with the sets out there now. HD-DVD, while nice, is far more shortsighted and less future proof than BD, by far.
That's why BD comes out of the gate with 80 percent studio support and every CE company of note backing it except for Microsoft, Toshiba, RCA/Thompson, and a handful of other strays. You have plenty of heated rivals somehow holding hands and agreeing on BR.
HVD talk has been around for around 5 YEARS and is still nothing more than TALK...not even a prototype exists.
It's hocus pocus.
In short Blu-Ray is about as future proof as a technology can be. HDDVD is for today and today only. Its best feature is backward compatability for average joe, but guess what?
AJ is years away from even being a factor.
Or more to the point:
The vast majority of the Average Joes don't even own HDTV's yet, PERIOD.