I am sick of this

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I am not for either at the moment. I think that if one is going to male claims that it is better than the other, it should at least do it properly.

The greater capacity and data transfer rates for Blu-ray will allow the movie studios to release their movies with higher quality video and audio than the HD-DVD format.

How does this work exactly? From what I have understood, both can support 1080p high definition. Surely it just means that you can not fit as much video onto HD DVD as you can onto Blu ray. Even if HD DVD disks are only 30 GB this still means you can fit 5 hours of video onto the disk, more than most films need.

Whereas HD-DVD only has support from three major movie studios (Warner, Paramount and Universal)

This claim is made yet HD DVD has more existing titles than Blu ray and has sold 33% more players than Blu ray. So if Blu ray has all these supporters, where are the titles, and where are the sales?

So far, Toshiba is the only company to officially announce a HD-DVD player and it will only support 1080i output

No this wrong. 1080i and 1080p look no different at that resolution. 1080p is better rendered on current HDTVs, and Toshiba have taken this into account. Read below...

The HD-XA2, on the other hand, gets a bigger facelift, with HDMI 1.3 for enhanced colour and sound, 12-bit processing, 1080p resolution and Dolby True HD 5.1 audio. The problem: It also comes with a bigger price tag of $1,000 (US).

Funny how it costs just as much as Blu ray players. So what difference do we notice so far? None!



Now I am all for debate and I don't want to take sides in this war, I'd rather just wait it out. But if you are going to go making claims and boasting your products then do your homework! What I see here is a poorly researched comparison that uses speculation rather than real hard facts.