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HD DVD vs Blu-ray Direct Comparisons
An anonymous reader writes "With today's release of three movies on Blu-ray, Warner Home Video has become the first studio to release movie titles on both high-def formats, making it finally possible to do an apples-to-apples comparison of the same titles on both formats . High-Def Digest has just posted reviews of all three titles — 'Training Day,' 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' and 'Rumor Has It' — comparing video, audio and extras to the previous HD DVD releases. Their verdict? Due to issues with image cropping, audio selection and supplemental features on the Blu-ray discs, the HD DVD versions win this first face-off."
Zonk is like one of those WW2 Japanese Soldiers who was alone on some little Pacific island years after the war was over still manning his post.
The 360 is selling dead in Japan and Europe.
The 360 is selling at a slower rate than the first Xbox in the US.
The 360 has just broke 3 million worldwide after 8 months on the market - worst selling console in over a decade.
Microsoft is demoing a huge and expensive addon HD-DVD player for the 360 that doesn't support 1080p and costs around 200-250 dollars extra.
And Zonk is still fighting on...and running out of ammo with a silly codec comparision.
Zonkybaby, the war is over. You can go home. The 360 and HD-DVD lost - a long,long,long time ago.
People have been encoding burnable 4.53 GB DivX/XviD movie rips from HD television broadcasts for a long time now. On many torrent trackers that mainly cater to people who care about quality, these DivX HD DVD-5 rips are slowly starting to push out regular MPEG-2 DVD-5's. An added bonus is that many set-top players can play them just fine. It is my guess that in countries where people don't regularly buy legal DVDs, this will be the format of choice. It has enough quality for an average Joe to tell that it's better quality than a DVD-9, and is comparable enough to true HD releases on HDDVD or Blueray to keep video buffs satisfied. As rips like this will flood the torrent networks, and with more set-top players supporting the full DivX/XviD specifications, it will catch on in the West, and is likely to be the standard of choice until we get HDDVD-R or Blueray-R discs for under $1 (if we ever do). With the spread of piracy and availability of bandwidth, it may take much longer for HDDVD or Blueray to catch on than many people expect, so we might just see another format come in and take over before the battle between HDDVD and Blueray is settled.
Just my 0.02 roubles.