http://www.eproductwars.com/dvd/index.cfm For a while HD-DVD had the edge(earlier release date, instant name recognition?), now it seems blu-ray is gaining ground.
obviously one will come out. i know a lot of medical offices are using blu ray cuz it can hold more data
Blu-Ray just sounds so much cooler and it holds more. HD-DVD is bland and sounds stupid to say. too many D's in there.
Yessssssss, I'm pro Blu-Ray because its hot, its new, its Sony, and it can hold like twice as much as HD DVD.
well...my cousin, who is a doctor has one. im sure they'll start moving towards that direction. my mom's office just got a blu ray recordable disk drive for $750....i think for big businesses who need backup will find it very useful, and if you're a business or especially a doctor's office, $750 is nothing. especially if you need it. so 2 that i know of.....maybe not a lot. sorry... but i think its gonna be a hot item in that field.
i think this is the drive my cousin got for his office http://www.mediamegamall.com/sony-bluray-internal-disc-rewritable-recorder-drive-bwu100a-p-6191.html
I see small business using it such as a doctors office but I highly doubt that big businesses are going to change their disaster recovery solutions to use Blu-ray.
If it is about capacity, some of those businesses might be looking forward to HVD or something similar. Assuming that tech would be ready in the next 5 years or so of course.
i think thats the only way blu ray will survive. cuz of the storage space. arent most players hd dvd players? toshiba is supposed to drop and bluray/hddvd player. i dont know when though
you're right about small businesses. but how do big businesses back up their data? unless they rely on a server...i dont know how most do it? do you? just wondering
Out of standalone players, I think there are more HD DVD systems out there. Maybe by quite a bit...been a while since I've seen any firm numbers. If you include the PS3, then there are (way?) more Blu-ray players (even with the 360 add-on). Of course, not all of those systems were bought by people that plan on buying Blu-ray movies.
Some Blu-ray companies have shown off 100GB and 200GB discs, both of which (IIRC) can be used with current players via a firmware update. These HD DVD discs would not work with any current HD DVD player AFAIK. Not that any of that matters. They'll probably all be vaporware for the most part (think one of the HD DVD spokemen even described the 51GB discs as vaporware).
Yeah, but that triple-layer disc isn't gonna happen til the end of the year at the earliest. And then the question becomes will it be compatible with existing HD-DVD players? As for the previous poster who said Blu-ray has twice the capacity of HD-DVD, not quite. A dual-layer Blu-ray disc is 50 GB. A dual-layer HD-DVD is 30 GB. And even though dual-layer Blu-ray discs are more common these days, the majority of titles are still 25 GB. The other thing holding Blu-ray back is the love affair the studios have with MPEG-2 and PCM. Those two things eat up a ton of space. Even 50 GB discs don't have much room left for extras. Until they switch over to MPEG-4 or VC-1 and the standalone players decode Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD-MA, this will be a problem. Oh, and the pricing still sucks for Blu-ray. Bare bones discs have $39.99 list prices and the players are 1000+ bucks. Meanwhile, HD-DVD could have Chinese players out later this year. Those could go for less than $300. That's what will win this war. Not a bunch of hype by Sony.
