Blu ray or HD

[clarkage]

Which one do you think will win the never ending battle?? I vote Blu ray!!

 

[Zander]

Blu Ray.

 

[Jon Starr]

Will there be a winner? I hear that they can make disks that are read by both formats, no?

 

[Andrew McCarrick]

Will there be a winner? I hear that they can make disks that are read by both formats, no?

They can and should do that.... but who knows.
All you need is transparent blu-ray layers (since they're at .1mm into the disc.) and then however many HD-DVD layers you want (at .65mm into the disc.).

You could get a regular SD DVD, single or dual layer, in there too (since SD DVD is at .6mm into the disc.). Then a consumer can buy any player and then just buy one disc for all three formats.

Honestly, I think they should flip the layer depths of DVD and HD-DVD and then you could put a red filter in just after the last HD-DVD layer, so just the red laser passes through. .05mm shouldn't be to much of a difference for a laser right? So current SD DVD players could handle that .05mm further depth, without having to change the laser optics in the players?

 

[Josh W]

Blu Ray. Clearly.

 

[Zak Forsman]

the writing is already on the wall.

 

[Kirk Gillock]

While doing a search for other topics like this one, I found a good "blast from the past". Here's one of the first Bluray/HD discussions, circa 2005.

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=27744

Whatever happened to Frizzle Fry?