Language options - only Blu-ray can do this...

[yspkrk]

A couple days ago, I came by Fry's to do some research and tried to check and compare technical data shown on the back of discs of the both formats. When I saw the data of "The Patriot", which is only on BD, I was so impressed; it has 24 different subtitles (23 languages) and 5 different 5.1 audio tracks with different languages including uncompressed English 5.1.

Then I really wanted to compare the formats with the same title. Luckily I found the right one: "2001-A Space Odyssey" (recently released by Warner). Both BD and HD-DVD were encoded by highest technology you can get. However, BD provides 13 different subtitles and 6 audio tracks (including German, Italian audio) while HD-DVD has only 6 different subtitles and 4 audio tracks. Even for special features, BD provides 7 kinds of subtitles while HD DVD "none". The two discs were released by the same studio to the same market. Why did then Warner make the difference between the two? My conclusion is this: Capacity! More GB matters! The more storage, the better!

From the short visit to Fry's, I got a "testimony": There's a better future with BD. Think also about the difference a BD-Rom will bring!

Btw, this capability of BD is important to me. I've been here in America for about six years and have experienced that it's harder to understand spoken English in movies most of time. I'm so glad many BD titles (unlike HDD) provides subtitles of my native language, Korean. I heard there are about 2 million people whose root is in Korea in the U.S. Think about another millions of those who are from China, Brazil, Italy, etc. They will all get the same benefit from this new technology.

Folks, here's my final words: Blu Rocks!