HD DVD: Fiction vs. Facts

[Elandyll]

1) BR Hardware is inherently more expensive.
Model per model, the BR one is also of better quality, and better technology.
compare a 1080p model with a 1080p, and you'll see the difference in price is actually quite small.

2) BR Media is inherently more expensive.
Wrong. it has been show that a BD25<TL33<BD50. It goes along with storage (data density) and quantity replicated, for which BR has an edge.

3) BR recordable drives and blank media are inherently more expensive.
There is no option atm for HD DVD. Which is probably a boon for studios due to the lack of protection of the HD DVD format. Eventually, because it was first, The BR will be (and is already) the choice format for data backup and storag.

4) BR is region-coded, while HD-DVD is not.
Which studios want, to protect their subsidiaries and distributors in foreign markets. This is a choice the Studio/distrib. makes, not the format. The format merely offers the capacity to do so.

5) BR has more anti-consumer features than HD-DVD.
HD DVD has a concerning lack of security for movie studios.
A legitimate buyer has nothing to fear from BR, while studios have everything to fear from pirates on HD DVD.

6) BR is more delicate and prone to unreadable scratches than HD-DVD.
Wrong. BR actually has a extremely effective anti scratch layer that the HD DVD lacks.

7) HD-DVD allows DVD/HD-DVD hybrid disks, while BR does not.
Who cares about having a DVDhybrid when you pay a HD price?
BR can playback DVDs all day long anyway if that's what you want.

8) Sony controls the proprietary BR format and is well-known for enforcing high prices on technologies they control.
Sony is one member of a consortium including Matsushita (Panasonic and JVC), Philips, Samsung... which offers thus a lot more choice than the Marx Brothers of HD DVD (Toshiba and M$). The perspectivev of hardware sales of HD DVD are so dauting that -NO- other major electronics company has produced any player but Toshiba, its creator.