Blu-ray and HD DVD Star Rating Breakdown

[GoldenRedux]

Originally Posted by Chris Gerhard

I haven't ignored the higher bandwidth, I haven't seen any evidence if both use the highest posible bandwidth that there will be any discernible difference using the same codecs, or different codecs for that matter.

How many titles have you seen on either format? What size television do you have and what is your viewing distance? Bandwidth, BTW, doesn't just affect the picture quality (which it certainly can) but also the audio quality and how many and what sorts of audio audio programs you can fit on a disc without adversely affecting picture quality.

HD DVD 30Mb/s total for audio and video combined

Blu-ray 48Mb/s for audio and video with up to 40Mb/s allowed for video alone.

I didn't believe Blu-ray was vaporware, I only used that example in response to your claim anything that HD DVD doesn't have on the market yet is vaporware.

I never mentioned anything about market. You're reading into my posts.

The quadruple layered discs may or may not be valid

You keep arguing about TL51 discs that aren't even in the spec and then say that the 200GB disc 'may or may not be valid' when they have already been physically demonstrated and are actually in the white paper for Blu-ray?

Has Panasonic provided the firmware updates for the first generation player to allow the advanced audio codecs?

It is coming this month, but you said 'capable of', which it clearly is. It's worth pointing out that the Toshiba A1 when it first shipped only decoded 2-channel Dolby TrueHD, which is pretty much useless, until a firmware update months later, and none of the HD DVD players currently decode any of the new DTS codecs at all.

Has Sony provided the same for the PS3?

The PS3 decoded Dolby TrueHD right out of the box and is set to be firmware upgraded to decode DTS-HD MA.

It's also worth pointing out that, because of the 'meaningless' superior bandwidth, Blu-ray titles are able to use uncompressed PCM (all the way up to 8 channels of 192/24, if need be) soundtracks, so the advanced audio codecs have not been needed as much. There are more lossy compressed soundtracks on HD DVD than on Blu-ray.

since Blu-ray hasn't used the higher bandwidth or greater capacity to any significant noticeable difference to this point.

In your opinion, but not in mine.