It was a No-Brainer...

[Nene]

The why I went Blu section huh?

Ok, easy... It's a significant technology upgrade, pure and simple. It's like the leap from LP albums to Cassette tapes, to CDs. It's a natural progression. When CDs came out, I stopped purchasing cassette tapes. When DVDs came out, I stopped purchasing VHS tapes. I never even considered purchasing DATs or that HD VHS system that came out, why go back to tape? When BDs came out, I stopped purchasing DVDs... To me, HDDVD is just another DVD. Yeah, you've put HD onto it, but you didn't change the fundamental technology of it. You're still limited to that same ammount of disk space.

With HD, space is everything. If you have to compress the video to put it onto a disk, it doesn't matter how good it looks it's still going to be subject to compression artifacting. As video display technology continues to advance, you will eventually see it. We've kind of hit a video technology plateau at the moment, with the next great leap being SuperHD. That'll be quite awhile down the road however. But before we get there, there'll probably be displays that do their best to simulate that experience. It makes sense that the less compression you put onto video, the better it's going to look when you're using one of those displays. Plus, I don't know about everyone else, but Iam sick of buying the same movies over and over in in the same or different formats. Why not save a little money, skip a format and get the better one when it comes out?

Ok, so right now HDDVD is doing some java tricks and may have some exclusive features... BD, is also moving in that direction. Give it another year if that , and there likely will not be any significant differences in the experience and java capabilities. The fact is that HDDVD was born an inferior fundamental technology just like the DAT and HD VHS. It doesn't matter to me in the slightest who own's the BD patents. It could have been Toshiba for all I care. Heck, I don't even own a Sony BD player, I have the Sammy. For that matter, a lot of Sony's inovations in the past have not been enough to inspire me to go out and purchase the technology. Look at the many recent audio formats since the CD... BD for me was as much of a no-brainer as the CD or the DVD ever was.

[Master X]

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Enjoy HD

[flinx1241]

Well put! It does seem like there are so many people who argue over what the systems can do right this second, as though that will never change and will always be important. Heck, you see tons of people whose arguments still focus on how the systems launched well over a year ago...