The final curtain doctor

The final curtain doctor who

First off, HD-DVD had a finished spec so there was none of that Profile 0, 1, 0 nonsense so if a disc had a move and special features that worked on one player, it worked on another. Out of the Gate it had Internet access and Persistant storage required. BD-Live may be dead on the vine, but how many bluray players do you see with Netflix, Vudu, pandora support? HD-DVD s have no region code. HD-DVD s players have Mandatory not optional Dolby Digitalplus and Dolby DigitalHD support. HD-DVD players also had a secondary video and audio decoder for Pip mandatory. HD-DVD s had a manufacturing advantage where they could use the same equipment that they used for DVDs. HD-DVD s have a thicker layer of protection to prevent a scratch from reaching the data layer of the disc. They also had less expensive players and media and the first to offer flipper discs where you d have the movie in HD on one side and a DVD on the other. So Eventually Bluray had a lot of these features or their own workarounds to the problem, but simply put it took them around 3 years to closely match what HD-DVD did out of the gate. Oh, and the space issue is less important than the Codec you use. Both HD-DVD and Bluray support VC-1 and even though you CAN fill 50 gb of space to get a 1080p picture using MPEG2 looking at you Pirates of the Caribbean you could get a much better picture in much less space if you used a modern codec instead of one that s 15 years old. It wasn t Sony throwing money at studios that led to Blu-ray s dominance-if I m not mistaken, it was HD-DVD that first made a studio switch to exclusively their side namely Paramount after both formats were introduced. By the time studios started abandoning HD-DVD, it was already getting trounced by Blu-ray by a margin of two to one. Blu-ray won because of one thing: the PS Even though not everyone who bought a PS3 didn t become a big Blu-ray buyer, the sheer number of PS3 sales compared to HD-DVD hardware sales still translated to overwhelming numbers in disc sales. I suspect part of it was the same reason Betamax lost long ago: pornography. I believe HD-DVD did not approve of porn being put onto HD-DVDs, and that industry can be a bit monolithic. Actually it was the other way around-the unfounded rumors were that Sony didn t want porn on their format. The first HD porn releases were on HD-DVD. That doesn t necessarily mean it was because Blu-ray banned porn; I d chalk it up to the fact that it was cheaper to manufacture HD-DVDs at the time, since it was easier to convert DVD manufacturing lines to HD-DVDs than it was for Blu-ray because HD-DVDs and DVDs have their data layers the same distance from the playing surface of the disc, while Blu-ray s is considerably closer-this is why Blu-ray stores more data per layer, and why having a special scratch-resistant coating was more of a concern for Blu-ray; but I digress. Anyway, the whole porn is the reason VHS won over Beta thing is a myth-porn helped popularize the VHS format, but by the time it did, Beta was already well on its way out. So there were two formats and now there is only one. How is that not getting defeated? So if there s a war, and the weapon is money, how is loss by one side not a defeat? You shouldn t be bitter because HD-DVD never stood a chance from the start. They were betrayed by Microsoft and when Disney went Blu-Ray only which they did from the very beginning that was absolutely the end of whatever format Disney was not supporting, end of story. If no HD-DVD movies are no longer being made, how was the format NOT defeated? I don t see any HD-DVD players being sold in stores and I don t see any new releases on HD-DVD. Where s your logic headed? I know only one person who owns a Blu-Ray and she only buys one or two Blu-Rays per year. 95% of the movies she watches come in via Netflix. Physical media is dead. Comment is buried, click here to see the rest. I know someone who doesn t have an HDTV, but bought a Bluray player to use it for DVD s and the Wifi Streaming of Netflix on demand. I know this ass-clown that actually thinks physical media is dead. Serious, this pompous wind-bag actually declared in a tech forum that Physical media was dead. New technologies never replace, they only splinter use.