This thread has earned this.
Blu-Ray does offer the advantage that you need two discs less often than compared to HD-DVD, so those people weren't lying. To get the same quality as some of the better 2 disc Blu-Ray sets out there the HD-DVD sets would have had to go to 3 DISCS! There is a space advantage and disc advantage whether or not you admit it. Now many of the studios would have cheaped out and gone the 2-disc route on HD-DVD rather than the 3-disc route, but it doesn't change the fact that giving a movie room to breathe on a BD-50 is a huge advantage rather than using an HD-DVD-30. You get a better bitrate on the video and more often than not get a better audio codec. You guys are coming into this thread without even a basic understanding of what is on the disc.
The same thing happened with DVD's. Many of the movies with a DTS track were two disc sets because the DTS track is so big that if you put the supplements on the same disc that you lose a lot of quality. With HD-DVD's, you got the rise in video, but often didn't get the rise in audio. And if you have the right set up it makes a difference. So already Blu-Ray has demonstrated that that extra space matters. Don't believe me? Go research how many HD-DVD movies have hi-def audio tracks and how many Blu-Rays's have one. King Kong is a great example where they had to cut it.
However, HD movies take up a lot of space, and now that studios are actually doing the supplements in hi-def as well (ton of examples, Close Encounters, Speed Racer, Iron Man, most every recent theatrical release when the studio isn't half-assing it). And guess what? When we had movies that were on Blu-Ray and HD-DVD you NEVER saw the supplements in hi-def as well. You know why? Because there wasn't enough room. Hell, on the most recent (or second most recent, I don't own it) Harry Potter movie, the Blu-Ray version had hi-def supplements and the HD-DVD version did not. That alone proves that Blu-Ray can take advantage of that extra space compared to HD-DVD.
So until you guys have actually done your homework on how Blu-Ray has already demonstrated advantages over its HD-DVD counterpart in utilizing the space, you guys are simply pissing and moaning for no good reason.
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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
