| rage4dorder said: Just to nitpick here, but the reason they are coming out with the HD version of the show is not to fit it on 1 or 2 discs, it's to make the show... High Definition, which means it takes up a lot more space. The only way they could fit the whole show on one disc is to do it at the lower standard resolution that DVD offers. right? |
I have to agree with rage here. If you are buying the HD DVD version, don't you expect the video on it to be in high def.? A standard dual layer DVD can hold up to 3.8 hours of standard def. content (assuming no audio). While an HD DVD can hold 13.3 hours of standard def. content, you're looking at anywhere from 3.3 to 5.1 hours of high def. content on the same disk depending on the codec used. (Blu-ray holds about 5.6 - 8.5 hours.)
It costs more money to license the codecs and disks for these new formats. It takes extra work to make these additional skus. The market for this content is much smaller. And you're technically getting more... i.e. better quality. Considering all those factors, it's not a surprise that the HD DVD/Blu-ray versions cost more than the DVD one.
You're welcome to complain. You're welcome to fight back... don't buy it if you don't like it. (I won't be buying in anytime soon.) But to base your reasoning on the number of disks is silly.
(Disk capacity information was provided by: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_DVD)
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