Posted by The Man With No Name on 01/23/07 03:30

"TheGame" <n0n0n0n0n0@excite.com> wrote in message
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> No question? Well let me ask you, how is BR "superior?

My understanding is; BR has superior potential, at least; 50mb/s data
transfer (HDDVD is 30 and DVD is 10)
Higher storage capacity (which I, personally, don't much care about. Either
version can easily accomodate a 150 minute movie; much longer and there's
bound to be an intermission, so who cares if I have to change disks?)

Problem is; Blu-Ray currently seems to use an inferior encoding to HDDVD
(that can change, though)

The data transfer is the thing that has me a leaning a little more towards
Blu-Ray.
Most of the highest-quality DVDs (the ones with the sharpest picture, etc.)
tend to be the ones with a data-transfer close to maximum (8 or 9 mb/s) and
from what I've read, the main advantage of High Definition is not so much
the higher resolution (just look at the background in most DVDs; skies are
textures and things, they barely use the resolution they do have; because
they're limited by data/second,) but the higher amount of data used to store
the image.

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