yeah... Totally agree - in fact, the Sony association seems to be hurting the marketing of Blu-ray more than anything. Blu-ray seems to be better than HD-DVD based on what I've read so far in that it can store more and is supposedly more widely supported accross the industry (their marketing site touts many more partnerships/supporters than HD-DVD)... but it still seems that the HD-DVD hardware is getting out there faster. Maybe having all these partners is too many and is slowing it down??
My main concern is storage - rather than how much more amazing the A/V is going to be; It would be so convenient to save 50 Gb of data onto a single disk (if it doesn't take 50 hours to do it!). Given that these technologies can read with different lasers at the same time, do you suppose it will also be possible to write to a disk while reading from it? hrmmmm.
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yeah... Totally agree - in fact, the Sony association seems to be hurting the marketing of Blu-ray more than anything. Blu-ray seems to be better than HD-DVD based on what I've read so far in that it can store more and is supposedly more widely supported accross the industry (their marketing site touts many more partnerships/supporters than HD-DVD)... but it still seems that the HD-DVD hardware is getting out there faster. Maybe having all these partners is too many and is slowing it down?? My main concern is storage - rather than how much more amazing the A/V is going to be; It would be so convenient to save 50 Gb of data onto a single disk (if it doesn't take 50 hours to do it!). Given that these technologies can read with different lasers at the same time, do you suppose it will also be possible to write to a disk while reading from it? hrmmmm.