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Gizmodo Declares Blu-Ray Winner
13.7BillionYears writes "Gizmodo has a special feature covering the many details of the Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD battle based on the technical, financial, and commercial merits of the two contenders. They conclude that Blu-Ray is the clear winner on all three fronts. Hopefully the movie industry and electronics manufacturers will see the same logic and avert a format war."
FRIDAY, OCT 22 2004
Blu-Ray Has Already Won
On Monday, we offhandedly declared Blu-Ray the winner over HD DVD to be the replacement of now standard DVD. Many have said that it's "too early to tell," but given both competitors have announced there will be products with their technology available to consumers before the end of 2005, we here at Gizmodo certainly don't think so. On the contrary, it's almost too late.
And so, we're declaring Blu-Ray the winner. Sure, the fact we want to call our optical media "Blurry Discs" for the next 10 years or so is a factor, but that's far from the prevailing one--Blu-Ray is not only technically superior to HD DVD, it has a far stronger corporate backing, and has demonstrated the ability to have more content available to push the format. After the jump, we break down the three areas--technical, financial, and commercial--where Blu-Ray has set itself apart from its only competition.
Technical
Since "technical" is quite broad, I'll begin by telling you about the all-important capacity. After all, for consumers like yourselves, this is one of the only technical aspects (well, aspects that vary between the two formats) of the disc you'll ever deal with. The capacity of a dual layered Blu-Ray disc is, for now at least, 50GB. The capacity of a dual layered HD DVD disc is 30GB. Already we see that Blu-Ray has 66% more overall storage capacity than HD DVD. But it doesn't stop there; Sony has announced that layering a disc beyond dual layering is possible, allowing up to a 200GB capacity on a Blu-Ray disc with 8 layers.
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One of the technical advantages of HD DVD used to be how it was "backwards compatible with DVD," meaning, existing DVDs could be played on HD DVD players. I say "used to" because I don't consider this an advantage anymore--not only have plenty of companies already announced various technical elements (such as read heads, lenses, etc.) to be compatible with Blu-Ray, DVD, and CD, most Blu-Ray devices shown at this year's CEATEC JAPAN convention are also scheduled to be compatible with DVD. Backwards compatibility with DVD was one of the primary arguments HD DVD had against Blu-Ray, but as recent developments have suggested, that doesn't really apply anymore. In fact, just this past week, we reported on the "BD/CD Dual Format Disc," which is a disc containing both Blu-Ray and CD data layers.
So what are the other technical advantages of Blu-Ray? Supporters of HD DVD have claimed a primary strength of the format is on the production side, in that a DVD production line can be converted to an HD DVD production line "in 5 minutes." Also, the production of HD DVD discs is said to be around the same as that of current DVDs. While there is no response from the Blu-Ray camp about how long it would take a production line to "make the switch," Panasonic announced back in March of this year that production of Blu-Ray discs could have the same cost-per-disc price as current DVDs. Perhaps lower, even - remember that announcement about Blu-Ray discs made of paper from earlier this year? "The combination of paper material and printing technology is also expected to lead to a reduc
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