Originally posted by: pupil
Essentially, Blu-ray has the ability to display video at either 24/50/60Hz, like Film or PAL/NTSC TV signals, so depending at what frame rate the footage was filmed/produced it can be put onto Blu-Ray disc at whatever speed it needs to be in, either 24/25/30fps. I'm hoping that over time, especially as the whole HD thing is adopted en masse, we will see a universal frame rate accepted. The whole resolution thing is not an issue anymore as everything will be at 1920×1080 (for 1080 naturally).

HVD is the future. I'm unimpressed by HD-DVD, it's only 15Gig/layer - that's not very much of an improvement upon DVD. In fact if you were to record a 2-hour movie onto a DVD-9 maxing out the space using the latest Mpeg-4 codec you'll have something in a quality at least 10 times better then the DVD standard alone allows for - yet HD-DVD doesn't make a "huge" leap in the quest for greater space. Remember Laserdiscs would split movies up between discs to keep them in high quality - HD-DVD dual layer discs are 30GB? That's less then half the size of a standard HDD. Also remember if you want to reduce piracy, you should release a movie in a higher format then can be easily ripped. HVD has claimed they will exceed 1TB discs - now I'd like to see a consumer rip and pirate THAT! a movie on a 1TB disc could be presented uncompressed - and still be of a quality equal to cinema. Boost it up with some lossless video and audio compression and the disc will probably hold information in greater then cinema quality, and it's good business because consumers can't easily copy it (even if they crack your encryption).

I wonder if they'll try regional-lockout again? Surely it'll be ruled illegal within 6 months if they do.