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gekkokamen on 13 April 2010
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nightsurge said:
gekkokamen said:
@nightsurge

yeah, you seem to know it all. I think I will make you my God, lol. All hail nightsurge!

I don't know it all.  But feel free to praise me.  I just pity that you think you know things that you don't, and are too lazy to find out otherwise.  Oh well, ignorance is bliss as they say.  All hail NightSurge!

Reasons why HD-DVD was better:

  • HD-DVD players were cheaper to purchase (due to competition, selling at hight loss, Toshiba paid for that, dearly)
  • HD-DVD players were unified spec (all had networking support long befor it became common place in Blu-Ray players and for much cheaper still) yay! that will win the format war...good, but not enough, meh.
  • HD-DVD discs/movies were cheaper (due to competition, selling at a loss, same thing, completely irrelevant)
  • HD-DVD drives had faster read speeds than Blu-Ray (not enough to make it that much better either)
  • HD-DVD used similar pressing technology to DVD so it was easy to manufacture and easy to produce combo HD-DVD/DVD discs.  (I had 300 which was a combo HD-DVD/DVD disc for only $5 more than the standard DVD back in the day, for example) (yeah, that's a definite plus, but I'd rather have a superior technology today, not DVD 1.2)

The only place that Blu-Ray lead was in overall capacity, but even then it was only a slim margin.  HD-DVDs were going to be expanded to 64GB of space per disc and even higher, but they didn't last long enough.  Blu-Ray won the HD war because it claimed the majority of support from movie publishers and it had the added benefit of being a gaming platform as well. Slim margin? Blu-ray is already being expanded to over 150GB and you are telling me about margins? Blu-ray movies today, over 30 mbps high bitrate 1080p, 7.1 true Dolby HD audio you think that shit is possible on 14gigs? 27gigs? lol, is that all you got? save your typing next time, I may not be around and people will be harsher to you, trust me, don't take all that nonsense into a tech forum you'll get eaten by pieces.


This is derailing the thred quite a bit don't you think. Anyway, I posted my replies to all that nonsense you spouted, lol.