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We are all asking the same question who will win the HD format
war, will it be the HD DVD which is cheaper to produce but lacks
the capacity of the more expensive but larger Blu Ray Disks.
Blu-ray was created by the Blu ray Disc Association, an
association of major electronic companies including , Panasonic
as well as Sony, the intention was to produce a high capacity
alternative to DVD's
HD DVD was developed along similar lines by the DVD forum,
another association of high level electronic manufacturing
companies in the opposing camp we have companies including
Toshiba and NEC, HD DVD is there replacement for standard DVD's.
If cost was not a factor in the equation Blu Ray would win hands
down due to its lager size, a Blue ray Disc can store up to 50
GB of data where a HD DVD can store up to 30 GB of data this
gives the Blu Ray an approximate 40% capacity advantage over the
HD DVD
Unfortunately, cost is included in the equation and the HD DVD
is Cheaper to produce then its lager counterpart, latest
information hints that the cost of production of a Blu Ray disk
is approximately double that of a HD DVD disk. As with any new
technologies, the cost normally start out expensive and come
down in price as the manufacturing process becomes streamlined.
This I would imagine happening with both HD DVD and Blu Ray
Ultimately it is the consumer that will decide the fate of these
two new technologies as they did in the VHS and Betamax wars
with VHS coming out as the victor ( Sony also developed the
Betamax format). Sony may have leaned a lesson from that time as
the betamax tapes did not have the storage capacity but
supposedly produced a better quality recording then the VHS
Tapes. At the time it wasn't the quality that mattered to the
public they wanted to store as much as they could on one tape.
Now Sony is backing the larger capacity storage medium.
The Sony Playstation 3 comes with a built in Blu Ray player with
the ability to go right up to 1080p resolution, having this
inbuilt in its next generation Games console is a great way of
getting the format accepted by the general public. The PS3 is
not only a great games machine it's also a great Blu Ray player
with outstanding picture quality. Microsoft who is batting for
the HD DVD format has released an add on HD DVD drive for the
Xbox 360 to try to even the score.
I do have a thought on whose going to win and I believe that to
be Blu Ray ,in time the manufacturing costs will come down and
then you are left with the choice of a big capacity disk or a
small capacity disk which one you going to choose? With the cost
of both the HD DVD players and the Blu Ray Players coming down
in price I personally would go for the more is more adage a
lager capacity equals more content better picture longer running
time. I have listened to a few discussions and the word is that
we have engineers from both camps working on multilayered disks
where you may be able to fit up to 100 hours of video on a Blu
ray disk and approx 60 hours on a HD DVD disk, whole seasons of
the sopranos on one disk. With this amount of viewing, I will be
putting my feet up dimming the lights and slipping a Blu Ray
disk into my PS3 and looking forward to my High Definition
future.
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Steve Morris runs
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