HD DVD better than Blu - HOW?

[BTBuck1]

Originally Posted by Mikeblu

now i know from that title im sure your all pretty mad at me lol. but no my question is how is HD DVD better than blu in any way other than it been 2 quid cheaper. i honestly can't think of any at all if theres anybody on here that owns both player so they can compare the two tell us how you think that HD DVD is better if there is anything. (though I doubt it.)

Better is all perception. IMO Blu-ray is Better beause it offers More disc space & Bandwidth for greater potential. Blu-ray offers more studio's and IMO better PQ over all from movies in my collections. I enjoy being able to pick from a plethora of brands for a player. And lastly the fact that the majority of my BD collection contains lossless audio as the rule rather than the exception. 1080p output available on all players.

I can see some people's perception as to why HDDVD is better.

1) Cost of entry the most obvious
2) Every player is capable of conecting to the internet to recieve fw updates and web enabled content
3) Required DD+ & TrueHD decoding in player. (although only 2ch is required all but the 360 can and do decode TrueHD 5.1)
4)PiP available on all players from day 1
5)A belief the cheaper replication will lead to cheaper cost and therefore mass adoption
6)Combo Format allows for playback of discs in portable dvd players, cars and in rooms you only have a legacy player. Which in turn is suppossed to fuel adoption by fence sitting consumers.
7) Region coding not implimented, though i feel this has hurt them more than helped (see New Line)

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these things are not important to me, but since you asked this is what i hear the most.