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Blu-ray vs. HD DVD Round Two

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-coulda-been-a-contender dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A second set of four movies are now available on both high-def disc formats, allowing for another set of head-to-head comparisons — and unlike last month's first round comparisons, Blu-ray fared much better this time. In fact, in comparing Warner's four latest Blu-ray disc releases ('Firewall,' 'Lethal Weapon,' 'Blazing Saddles' and 'Full Metal Jacket') to their HD DVD predecessors, High-Def Digest found three of the four titles to be more or less at picture quality parity. The key difference between these titles and Warner's Blu-ray launch titles last month? On all three of the titles receiving high marks, Warner switched from using the MPEG-2 compression codec to VC-1, which the studio has been using from the start on its counterpart HD DVD releases."

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  1. well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    .. i would click this if i was you Carnage Blender

    Do it!

  2. Here's an idea... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How about putting out a decent (read: widescreen) regular DVD version of Full Metal Jacket, and then worry about putting it out in the whiz-bang new formats nobody has a player for yet?

  3. Shove it, CmdrDildo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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