Martin Campbell director of Casino Royale backs Blu-ray.

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HiHD: Would you be disappointed if the industry decides on one or the other and it ends up being HD DVD?

CAMPBELL: Absolutely, it’s gotta be Blu-ray because I’ve already bought the machine. (laughs).

HiHD: How important do you, as a filmmaker, think it is for the mass market to embrace high-def in general?

CAMPBELL: I think it’s incredibly important. I think we’ll all be high-def, won’t we? Obviously there’s a war between Blu-ray and high-def. I think Blu-ray will win it. But the truth is, I think everything will be high-def.

HiHD: Why do you think Blu-ray will win?

CAMPBELL: Well, it’s back to the Beta/VHS thing, isn’t it? I thought Beta was a much better quality than VHS. But, of course with the marketing and everything else, VHS won through. Quality difference here is minimal between Blu-ray and high-def (HD), although I did look at them both and, whether psychologically or not, I thought Blu-ray looked better. I’ll be buying high-def DVDs, no doubt about it.

HiHD: "Casino Royale" is available in Blu-ray but not HD DVD since it is from Sony. How important is it for the industry to unify behind a single high-def disc format?

CAMPBELL: I tell you, I think they should. Look at all the mess that went on with Beta/VHS. It’s infuriating sometimes. It’s like you get these different regions for DVDs and so forth. It would be so great to have one system that is unified right across the spectrum.

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