HD-DVD: What's so bad about it?

[GoldenRedux]

Well, personally, I'm not going to play the diplomat and claim that both formats are great because I don't truly believe that. The reason I chose Blu-ray and the reason I want HD DVD to fail is because of the undeniable technical superiority of the Blu-ray format, there is no way around that. I have already seen the results of titles the have been done for the lowest common denominator (I'm looking at you Warner) and they're not pretty. Head to head, there is no way HD DVD can compete with Blu-ray. Period. If both formats are using the same audio and video codecs, then it stands to reason that higher capacity & higher bandwidth = higher quality. Anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves. HD DVD has already been maxed out. It's a format that never should have seen the light of day, and it's being around is not only crippling the HD market, but also crippling the quality of the HD product that is available to us as the consumer.