So which BDs are actually better than HD DVD?

[scragham]

this is a hard question to answer because the movies that really take advantage of BD's "theoretical" advantages in bitrate and capacity come from BD-exclusive studios.

namely disney and SPE.

warner's had a bad history of stiffing BD on releases, as has paramount. paramount had -just- started releasing BD-optimized movies, but we all know what happened to that one .

regardless, demo any one of the many outstanding releases from disney/BVHE or SPE if you want to show off how gorgeous BD can be.

edit: oh, you know that already. you're asking for specific titles... pirates 1 and 2 are the obvious ones. don't forget to turn on PCM also. let's see HD DVD attain those bitrates.