Originally posted by: Invader Jenny
I don't understand any of this Blue-Ray stuff that people talk about. I barely understand and remember when VHS become bunk and DVD was the way to go. But with Blue-Ray?... bah. I'll hope for it when I fully understand what it is. I have a standard TV tube. I have no moneys to buy me a nice HDTV set, and the one that my father has...I don't even watch the HD channels anyway.
I don't understand any of this Blue-Ray stuff that people talk about. I barely understand and remember when VHS become bunk and DVD was the way to go. But with Blue-Ray?... bah. I'll hope for it when I fully understand what it is. I have a standard TV tube. I have no moneys to buy me a nice HDTV set, and the one that my father has...I don't even watch the HD channels anyway.
There is not much to understand. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are the competing DVD successors for the HDTV television format. HD-DVD has 30 GB memory capacity, Blu-Ray 50GB. HD-DVD has already been launched in the US while Blu-Ray is still not released.
HDTV is 16:9 only, and can have up to 1920x1080 pixel resolution compared to 720x480 pixel (NTSC) or 720x576 pixel (PAL), and comes relatively close to the resolution of a standard 35mm cinema release copy.