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Blue-ray vs. HD-DVD
A good comparison of the two up and coming media storage formats...
High Definition and You
It is estimated that one half of the 24 million households who own HDTVs don’t watch high-definition (HD) content. Simply buying an HD set and hooking it up to a cable signal doesn’t provide any more detail than a regular TV set. To enjoy HD to its fullest you need HD programming, either through an HD broadcast antenna or an HD cable service. With those services, home viewers are stuck with whatever’s on TV, though. DVD proved to be a television revolution after its release, and with thousands of titles released so far, entertainment choices are more varied than ever. But how do people utilize and connect the HD capabilities of their HDTV with an optical disc format? Last year both Sony and Toshiba-Samsung unveiled solutions in the form of Blu-ray and HD-DVD respectively. Both formats offer HD content for the home theater environment, but the way in which they deliver that content is fundamentally different, placing the two camps in a format war hearkening back to the VHS vs. Betamax struggle in the late-70s/early-80s. With hardware costs for both camps being relatively high, not to mention the fact that there are very few dual format players (LG recently brought the first to the market at the staggering cost of $1,200), most consumers are forced to decide between Blu-ray or HD-DVD for their high definition needs. But which format is worth the investment? Which format will provide the best quality and stick around to make the investment worthwhile? We’ll take a look at the answers to those questions for both formats.
Read all about it here, courtesy of HardOCP.com
Eric
Blue-ray vs. HD-DVD
A good comparison of the two up and coming media storage formats...
High Definition and You
It is estimated that one half of the 24 million households who own HDTVs don’t watch high-definition (HD) content. Simply buying an HD set and hooking it up to a cable signal doesn’t provide any more detail than a regular TV set. To enjoy HD to its fullest you need HD programming, either through an HD broadcast antenna or an HD cable service. With those services, home viewers are stuck with whatever’s on TV, though. DVD proved to be a television revolution after its release, and with thousands of titles released so far, entertainment choices are more varied than ever. But how do people utilize and connect the HD capabilities of their HDTV with an optical disc format? Last year both Sony and Toshiba-Samsung unveiled solutions in the form of Blu-ray and HD-DVD respectively. Both formats offer HD content for the home theater environment, but the way in which they deliver that content is fundamentally different, placing the two camps in a format war hearkening back to the VHS vs. Betamax struggle in the late-70s/early-80s. With hardware costs for both camps being relatively high, not to mention the fact that there are very few dual format players (LG recently brought the first to the market at the staggering cost of $1,200), most consumers are forced to decide between Blu-ray or HD-DVD for their high definition needs. But which format is worth the investment? Which format will provide the best quality and stick around to make the investment worthwhile? We’ll take a look at the answers to those questions for both formats.
Read all about it here, courtesy of HardOCP.com
Eric
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