I am so confused... please help! Blu-ray or HD DVD?

[takezo]

Originally Posted by kalby8

I am just about ready to purchase a unit - either Blu ray or HD DVD. I am so confused - please help. I saw a HD DVD presentation that was awesome - and my friend swears that Blu Ray is not as good while I hear others tell me that Blu Ray is the answer.

Please helpme make up my mind!

If you got the money, get the LG HD media player that can play both HD-DVD and Blu-ray.

But unfortunately for your friend, Blu-ray will be the format that takes over DVD. Why?

HD-DVD is not future proof. Blu-ray is capable of scaling to 200GB discs. HD-DVD's 30GB dual layer disc, and phantom triple layer 45GB Disc have all been trumped by the now very readily availible 50GB Dual Layer Blu-ray disc.

Hardware sales. HD-DVD fans swear that they are winning, while only Toshiba and the faliure known as Xbox 360 Hd-DVD add on are the only HD-DVD players on the market, while Sony's Standalone and PS3, and Samsung, Panasonic Give a message to customers that Blu-ray is superior in every way.
Even LG would not make just an HD-DVD player. It's a Blu-ray player with legacy HD-DVD support.

If Toshiba was really out pacing all the variety that Blu-ray has, don't you thing that there would be more 3rd party devs making players for it?

[GoldenRedux]

Originally Posted by takezo

If you got the money, get the LG HD media player that can play both HD-DVD and Blu-ray.

But unfortunately for your friend, Blu-ray will be the format that takes over DVD. Why?

HD-DVD is not future proof. Blu-ray is capable of scaling to 200GB discs. HD-DVD's 30GB dual layer disc, and phantom triple layer 45GB Disc have all been trumped by the now very readily availible 50GB Dual Layer Blu-ray disc.

Hardware sales. HD-DVD fans swear that they are winning, while only Toshiba and the faliure known as Xbox 360 Hd-DVD add on are the only HD-DVD players on the market, while Sony's Standalone and PS3, and Samsung, Panasonic Give a message to customers that Blu-ray is superior in every way.
Even LG would not make just an HD-DVD player. It's a Blu-ray player with legacy HD-DVD support.

If Toshiba was really out pacing all the variety that Blu-ray has, don't you thing that there would be more 3rd party devs making players for it?

You forgot to mention Phillips also makes a Blu-ray player, and also coming in the Autumn will be Japanese manufacturer Funai (Sylvania, Magnavox, etc.) as well as Sharp, not to mention the rumoured Blu-ray-only player from Denon, and the third generation Samsungs.

[w_tanoto]

you come to the wrong place to ask this question. we are mostly BD supporter.

If you want to know why I support BD. i'll tell you why.
Disney and PlayStation is definitely my reason.
higher capacity
more support than hd dvd in terms of movie studio.
supported by Hewlett-Packard (with HD DVD)