First, Blu-Ray discs have far more capacity than HD-DVDs so there's no doubt which format is more advanced and deserving to replace DVD in that respect. A single layered HD-DVD holds 15 GBs while a single layed Blu-Ray holds 23-25 GBs. That's a huge difference (10 GBs). If you double the layers then you only double the capacity of each disc (30 GB vs 50 GB). (In addition, as a hybrid disc, a BD can fit an entire 8.5 GB DVD on its second layer while HD-DVD requires you to use the other side of the disk to achieve hybrid status. A single layer BD holds almost as much as a dual layered HD-DVD.
There's still this bizarre idea that capacity = better for a movie playback platform. The plain and simple fact is that a VC1/AVC encoded movie will not need 50GB. Not even with extreme picture quality. Not even with the inclusion of lossless audio codecs.
Short of movies coming with hours upon hours of extreme encoded HD extras, 30GB is more than enough space. There could well be a case of HD-DVD movie releases spanning onto two disks if things really get silly, but even then it will work to HD-DVD's advantage - 'Two Disk Collector's Set' is a better marketing spin than 'One DIsk Collector's Set'.
In real world scenarios, it all comes to down to TV series boxsets: less episodes per disk on HD-DVD if both formats use VC1/AVC. But less episodes per disk for Blu-Ray if they insist on using MPEG2.
At the end of the day, the Bluray discs have so far delivered disappointing image quality compared to HD-DVD. I think that speaks for itself.
For one thing, BD will read and burn data faster than HD-DVD.
There's still this bizarre idea that capacity = better for a movie playback platform. The plain and simple fact is that a VC1/AVC encoded movie will not need 50GB. Not even with extreme picture quality. Not even with the inclusion of lossless audio codecs.
Short of movies coming with hours upon hours of extreme encoded HD extras, 30GB is more than enough space. There could well be a case of HD-DVD movie releases spanning onto two disks if things really get silly, but even then it will work to HD-DVD's advantage - 'Two Disk Collector's Set' is a better marketing spin than 'One DIsk Collector's Set'.
In real world scenarios, it all comes to down to TV series boxsets: less episodes per disk on HD-DVD if both formats use VC1/AVC. But less episodes per disk for Blu-Ray if they insist on using MPEG2.
At the end of the day, the Bluray discs have so far delivered disappointing image quality compared to HD-DVD. I think that speaks for itself.
For one thing, BD will read and burn data faster than HD-DVD.
Bandwidth between the two is pretty much the same actually.
Blu-Ray most certainly is not the only proper option. HD-DVD is just as 'proper.' That's the whole point, the formats are interchangeable. Being an advocate of either is ludicrous.