Okay, so I got a little excited on the topic, but I think this is something everyone with a high-def disk player should know.

Today, whatever company makes HD-DVD announced that they are pernamently ceasing ALL production of HD-DVD players, disks, etc...

Blu-Ray is victorious! (not that I care, I'm happy enough with regular DVD)

It doesn't apply to me really, but I figured this is pretty big news in the high-definition market. Of course, this makes Blu-Ray the only HD format available, which I believe could be illigal in some ways.. IDK

I guess it would only be illegal if Sony bought the company making HD-DVD players. Seems like Microsoft made a smart descision, after all, selling the 360 HD-DVD player separately, guess they won't lose too much $$$.

Yeah, the format war is over. But too bad Blu-Ray won.

I thought that when you compared the two closely, HD-DVD was the better format for consumers. It had a lot of advantages.

- No region coding like the original DVD format, meaning an HD-DVD disc could be played anywhere in any country. Blu-Ray has region coding.
- Studios could easily make DVD/HD-DVD combo discs; so you could buy a movie and play it on your DVD player now, and then when you upgraded your player you could watch the other version without having to buy the movie again.
- HD-DVD had better interactive content support (extras, commentary, etc).
- Companies that manufactured DVD discs needed to do very little retooling of their equipment in order to make HD-DVD discs. This probably would have meant lower prices.
- HD-DVD had less oppressive copy protection, which meant they were easier to rip. Legalities aside, it meant that you could rip a movie and put it on a portable media player without having to buy the movie again.

The only disadvantage it had was less space on the disc. But the majority of the releases on HD-DVD never filled up the disc anyway. The picture quality was the same as Blu-Ray. Both formats used the same codecs and bitrates. (In theory Blu-Ray could support higher bitrates because it has more storage space, but no studio has taken advantage of it yet.)

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i miss the good ol days...

I remember watching Tron with my dad's Betamax player...

hehehe

lurkinghorror Wrote:Regardless, what troubles me over this development is how the death of HD-DVD transpired.

Same here. Apparently, Sony's connections to movie studios (with them owning a studio themselves) influenced the other studios. So it was a case of self-interest, rather than consumer choice. Very, very bad.

You just know the studios picked Blu-Ray because of its more restrictive limitations. (Stronger copy protection, region coding which HD-DVD did away with.) Also, the fact that Sony had an agenda to make the PS3 more popular, had a lot to do with it as well.