HD DVD Advantages?

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[QUOTE=Musashi;352534]

By what? 15 cents a disc? Blu-ray is cheaper per GB. Read here: http://wesleytech.com/blu-ray-vs-hd-...zed-again/113/
And why do HD-DVDs have higher street prices?

Blu-Ray Discs are not cheaper due to the fact that their yield rates are really bad. For every Blu-Ray disc pressed, only 80% of them are successful, and that is really bad business. HD DVD's are approx: at about 95% +/- 7% or so.

Not without an expensive upgrade to the plant. It's not as easy as Toshiba claims.

This costs is "Extremely Minimal" Trust me, I should know (See my SIG). This minor upgrade is a hell of a lot cheaper than building a new Blu-Ray pressing plant. It will take a Studio many years of profit to come close to paying the plant off.

Um, no. https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=551
Told ya. Those yields are on par with HDDVD-only discs, but a whole lot better than (HD)DVD flippers.

(HD)DVD flippers are quite successful, and have positive feedback from consumers. The soon to come 51GB Tripple Layer HD DVD/DVD discs are going to replace these flippers and the SD DVD's. Supporting studios are going to press HD DVD/DVD tripple layer discs which is one weapon HD DVD has that Blu-Ray can never have due to the DVD Forum licencing.

Blu-ray is the only hi-def format approved by the Blu-ray Disc Association; what's your point? Don't forget: the HPG has about 6 directors, the BDA has 17.

My point is Sony is part of the DVD Forum. The DVD forum holds the right to the name "DVD" and its technology. HD DVD is the only Hi Def format to succeed DVD. That is my point. What Sony should have done is come together to produce one Hi Def Format so that we wouldn't be in a war right now, but they refused and went against the DVD Forum specifications.

Profiles aren't "problems", they're tech specs like any other.

No they are not. Sony should have never released an incomplete Hi Def Format. So, how will they explain that past & current BD stand alone players will not have support for future web-enabled titles? I call that a Law Suit waiting to happen.
http://www.tech.co.uk/home-entertain...eid=1402030689

So how come there's talk of triple layer discs now?

Unfortunately for Blu-Ray, this Triple Layer Disc is an HD DVD offence that Blu-Ray is completely defenceless with. And the DVD Forum is really serious about this. Just to give you an example of the strength in this concept, Paramount sold 8.5 Million Transformer DVD's & over 190,000 HD DVD's. If this movie came out on a Triple Layer (HD) DVD, then we are talking about 8.7 Million sold in the first week alone. If somebody wants to buy it, it will ONLY be available on this Triple Layer Disc, which is an incentive to later on go & purchase a HD DVD stand alone player.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/d...r-hd-dvd-spec/

No they don't.

HD DVD & Blu-Ray are 100% identicle in PQ & AQ. Just look at the reviews. HD DVD are on 30GB and BD is on 25GB & 50GB.

So...the absence of lossless audio on Transformers and most other movies was just for kicks?

Transformers received 5 stars out of 5 for superior Audio Quality. HD DVD has many films with lossless audio support all packed in a 30GB disc with superior PQ & AQ. The only 50 GB discs I've seen from BD movies is 25GB was used for the movie while the other 25 was used for PIP.

Great point.