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Posted by Gary Eickmeier on 11/14/06 02:00
Smarty wrote:
> Gary,
>
> Your entire investment in a system to burn HD DVDs is a standard (red laser)
> burner for about $30 from NEC, Pioneer, Liteon, etc. plus some blank disks
> at 20 cents apiece. Your authoring software (Ulead VideoStudio 10) will cost
> below $100 and will also do a very nice job of editing HDV video and
> authoring standard DVDs as well as HD DVDs. If and when you should decide to
> buy a blue laser burner for burning HD DVD or BluRay format disks, this
> software already supports both blue laser formats so no additional
> investment is required except to eventually buy a blue laser (HD DVD or
> BluRay) burner when their prices come down. This would only be required if
> you wanted to make 2 hour HD DVDs or 2 hr BluRay DVDs.
>
> Note that there are two incompatible HD formats for creating high definition
> DVDs, one called BluRay, the other called HD DVD. Each will require unique
> burner and blank disks, and therefore......you would need to either commit
> to one format....or buy both burners and 2 different style blanks if you
> wanted to make both BluRay and HD DVD format disks of 2 hour duration.
Thanks again, Smarty, but your reasoning doesn't go all the way to the
present fork in the road.
We can either purchase a Blu Ray player knowing that the burners will be
available eventually, or go for the HD DVD player, on the hope that the
format will last more than a year. The red laser burners and software
may be cheap, as you say, but the HD DVD player is $500 right now.
It is interesting to me that you can burn HD DVD compatible discs right
away, but if that format dies out then the cost of the player will be
down the drain, because the industry will no longer support that format
with burners and software to play longer than 23 minutes.
My current question would be, how can the HD DVD discs play for two
hours if they are red laser? Just the compression scheme? So why
wouldn't we be able to burn discs that play that long?
Gary Eickmeier
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