HD-DVD/BluRay

[[AK]Clay]

It appears they are finally settling on which is going to be our next generation DVD format.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080224/...osoft_hd_dvd_3

And it's looking like BlueRay is going to be the winner.

[[AK]StitchJones]

Blu-Ray hands down has been the better format. Based on the 49.67Gb of space that can be used to store a movie as well as audio tracks and other features it has simply been the better technology.
HD-DVD was trying to play nice with the regular DVD crowd by allowing upwards of 8gb of it's 30gb of space to be populated with the film that could be played on a regular DVD drive. That right there provides you with a quality issue when dealing with HD media. Also, now that Toshiba has given up on the format. More and more articles are coming out on how the HD-DVD format did not truly display 1080p but 1080i. To a good number of people, that isn't a big deal, but in actuality it really is.
Now that this iteration of the format war is over to anyone still looking or wondering about what Blu-Ray player to buy. The choice is easy, the Playstation 3 console. Put along side other set top Blu-Ray players, Consumer Reports has rated the Blu-Ray movie player as part of the Playstation 3 console the highest in terms of quality and performance. And at $399 for the 40gb model, you also get the ability to play Playstation3 format games. Which is a pretty slick feature for those of you who don't have anything to play when the WoW servers are down ;-)

[[AK]Bribo]

Raving about the merits of the PS3????!!!!!

Oh, how times have changed.

[[AK]Hylander]

Raving about the merits of the PS3????!!!!!

Oh, how times have changed.

Well all that frying eggs on his 360 finally took a toll....

[[AK]Rocks]

No worries,, I have both! At least I can focus on one format now!

[[AK]Mydrial]

That was one battle I sat out....early adopting and guessing in a format war is expensive (I have the box of Beta-MAX tapes and laser discs to prove it, yep, Im at least as old as Rocks).

Now I'm just gonna give it a few more months to see if a couple of nicer more affordable players possibly come out.