It is a war between blu ray and HD- DVD and now it seems the X Box and Micro soft are also in it It is for the customer to decide the course of the war
Blu Ray or HD-DVD?
New Tech on the block
The war is lost or won in the strategy room and here in this case the board room you can call it marketing or R&D before the first salvo is shot. The current war is between the new HD-DVD and Blu-ray. It is unclear as to who has won, in fact it is yet to uncertain as to the how long the war will go on before the new warrior is seen in the battlefield. But at present it does look as if Blu-ray is on the winning path, but survival to capture a market share is moot.
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The Blu-ray picture quality that is fairly better than that offered on standard DVD, but not mounting to the intensity of anything one could call high definition.
Blu-ray's present lackluster image quality could be due to a odd convergence of inopportune dealings. First, they have not productively bulk-produced dual-layer Blu-ray discs. Which means the storage space capability on the first releases is inadequate to 25 GB rather than the 50 GB accessible with the dual-layer structure. Secondly, the use of MPEG-2 which actually compromises on the clarity as well as storability.
Now that HD-DVD drive is coming for the Xbox 360 there are new entrants and players in the format war
Currently however we have a strange phenomenon of a cheaper HD DVD giving better picture quality that a costlier blu ray disk. I don’t think there mush for the buyer to decide. After all he or she is going to watch a movie and in all probability forget about it in a few hours one cant savor video quality for long can we?
As we have seen in the past any technology is easily duplicated in the hot tropics South East Asia and it undermines not only the right holder but also the development of newer technological advances
It is estimated that it costs about $2.5million to set up a Blu-ray duplication line and about $50,000 to do the same with HD-DVD. No marks for guessing which technology is online for piracy in the underground reverse engineering workshops of China and India.
My guess is that the although one of them have seemingly won there is quite a bit of war still left as there are going to new technologies entering by the day
Go for the best as you see it because you are the one to decide.
