HD-DVD or BluRay?

[nathantay]

whyser said:

nathantay said:
Go with HD. The PQ @ AQ is the same as BR and has more features at half "if not more" the price of BR. Also Hd's strategy isn't dependent on a video game system like BR.

The picture quality isn't always the same for releases that are on both Blu-Ray and HD DVD.

There has been a study done that shows that Blu-Ray picture quality is increasing in quality over time, and if you look at overall picture quality reviews for both formats, Blu-Ray comes out on top. The study was done over multiple review sites, such as HiDef Digest, Home Theatre Spot, DVD Talk, Upcoming Discs, and Home Theatre Forum.

Here's the analysis (dated Friday Oct 19th, 2007): http://www.dvdfile.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6326

As for audio quality, you've heard of the issue where Paramount had to decide between bonus features or PCM/TrueHD audio, due to storage limitations (and I'm also suspecting that it reached it's streaming rate limit). Transformers ended up with DD+, a lossy audio format. Is this what is acceptable from a high defintion format? For such a high profile movie, you should be expecting the best video/audio quality possible.

                                                                                                                                  

So what your saying is BR a year and a half later is on par or marginally better than HD. It's amazing that BR has a storage & bit rate advantage yet HD gives you identical or almost identical PQ with a lower bit rate and more features with less storage. The DD+ track on Transformers "which HiDef Digest gave a 5"wasn't an issue for me as it has the best AQ I've ever heard on HD. I did get the best video/audio quality of Transformers because I got it on HD and not Dvd like you.