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Originally Posted by gekko
I'd take HD-DVD over any other medium avaliable, especially Blu-Ray. For all you who bitch about Nintendo going their own way on things (like proprietary discs), you should be praying for HD-DVD. It has great potential, unlike Blu-Ray. It is being designed to be backwards compatable with DVDs, so it has a greater change of being adopted by Hollywood, as well as being put into PC drives. And if movies come out on DVD, it increases the number of companies using the format, which leads to lower discs costs, which makes developers happy.
I just don't see Blu-Ray being sucessful. But this is all BS, the guy took already existing rumors and wrote about it. Just look at the way it's written, it's in the same manner that all the Dolphin BS was written in. It's the same thing every time, and the guy is always supposedly "credible" until he disappears after the trade shows.
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I really agree. HD-DVD is the way to go right now. Particularly when it comes to movies, HD-DVD is going to end up being more versatile because of its compatability with current DVD's, and the fact that it will support more compression formats than MPEG-2.
And usually I don't I agree with a lot of what Gekko says, but I'm thinking the guy who came up with these rumors is blowing smoke. Anybody could say what he's saying and be believed. Although, I'm not going to say he's outright wrong, I just don't think he's working with any more info than we've already got to come to his conclusions.
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Originally Posted by Jonbo298
I'm not saying HD-DVD will be "teh suxorz", I just prefer Blu-Ray for the fact its larger and makes it much easier for High Definition stuff to fit on 1 disc intead of multiples like current DVD's are. I'd like to have all 3 LotR movies, in high def, on 1 disc instead of 3 or more.
But I'll embrace either format. Companies need to stop bitching with each other and settle on one format.
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It's true, they really need to decide. But I personally think it's kind of unfair of Sony to place us in a position like this. They're releasing Blu-Ray before the HD-DVD format is going to be finalized and mass produced. So if Blu-Ray starts winning over the market, backwards compatability could go bye bye if the general consumers just go with Blu-Ray because it's out first.
But as you said, whatever format wins the war will be the one that I buy into.