Blu-ray and HD DVD Star Rating Breakdown

[Maximus]

Originally Posted by Chris Gerhard

On second thought, the two lossless audio tracks might be nice since my girlfriend doesn't like subtitles, although I would always choose a lossless audio track with subtitles, she might prefer dubbed. The greater capacity could mean something to me, but nothing to the format war now that I think further about it. She is important to me. Maybe time will show MPEG-2 using higher bitrates and requiring greater capacity looks better than AVC-1, who knows? All I have seen so far and all of the reviews I have read make me still believe the technical differences mean nothing to the market and nothing to the format war. AVC-1 with one Dolby TrueHD soundtrack given the 30 Mbps limit and I doubt anybody anywhere can tell the difference between the two formats. I understand having multiple lossless soundtracks would be problematic now for HD DVD so I concede that difference is important. Of course I could take the position I don't want to watch the stupid dubbed version and want a format that can't have both and favor HD DVD, but I won't.

Chris

Wow, imagine if there was such a codec as AVC-1, we wouldn't have MS crapping all over AVSF!