HD DVD Battle Soon to be Over?
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Originally Posted by Sleepy,Jan 4 2008, 05:35 PM
Actually for me, HD is a more expensive format to author and compress than BR, but perhaps my rate cards are obsolete.
Another plus behind BR: The BR disc has 60% more capacity than HD (50gbs v 30gbs), so uncompressed audio in multiple languages can be incorprated onto a disc with lots of extras (ie BD-Java) and thats with a feature of longer running time.
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Unless your talking about a animated feature under 90mins, all of the time. The amount of code required in the build of an HD disc compared with that of a regular standard def disc is unbelievable.
As far as other languages are concerned, when you're talking about a worldwide simultaneous release, the fewer DLTs you build, the better your margins. When you can build 2 different discs to cover Europe instead of 6, your margins can increase substantially.
As far as other languages are concerned, when you're talking about a worldwide simultaneous release, the fewer DLTs you build, the better your margins. When you can build 2 different discs to cover Europe instead of 6, your margins can increase substantially.
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Disc space is a non issue right now thanks to the availability of burners and the associated cost. 99.8% of consumers only use the formats for playing movies and for all subjective purposes, they are indentical.
If your in the business of making them - completely different.
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Originally Posted by thatguyjosh,Jan 4 2008, 05:14 PM
I've never understood this argument. $$$$$$ helped VHS in what.. the 80s? Back then your only option was to purchase it. This is 2008 and the age of the internet.. who in the hell BUYS $$$$$$ anymore? Seriously..
And regards to the internet media I totally agree with you. But the typical HD content consumer is not going to have the capabilities to stream to their HDTV. This may change in the next 5-10 years but until then if you want to view HD content you'll have to settle for a DVD.
Therfore if you want HD pron you'll have to go with whatever they use. Someone else also mentioned the Bollywood titles. Take a look at the amount of titles these two sections of the industry produce and the total sales you'll soon realize the amount of clout they carry in this discussion.
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My argument is that HD-DVD will triumph only because the average consumer is more ignorant to the meaning of BluRay, while HD is what it sounds. Most people I've asked who aren't really into technologies, immediately say that they would purchase HD-DVD first, because it sounds much better.
There is clear production value to BluRay, but I feel that it would be easier to sell HD-DVD to the masses. Especially once costs for HD-DVD and BluRay come down, you'll have a larger number of average people (whom wouldn't pay large amounts of money for such systems) purchasing the HD-DVD.
There is clear production value to BluRay, but I feel that it would be easier to sell HD-DVD to the masses. Especially once costs for HD-DVD and BluRay come down, you'll have a larger number of average people (whom wouldn't pay large amounts of money for such systems) purchasing the HD-DVD.