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Originally Posted by GoldenRedux

I disagree. I would fully expect a Blu-ray player to look 'better' than an HD DVD player when that BD player is playing back a BD-50 disc that is encoded to take advantage of the higher BD mux rate and peak bitrate, which HD DVD cannot achieve.

How likely is it that you will ever see that?

It is possible with Paramount using MPEG2 and VC-1 so that the encodes will be slightly different.

But really their quality control will be at fault if the HD DVD release looks any worse than the Bluray of the same title assuming they aim for transparency to the master.