MrMafoo said:
The thing I find funny is when people say: BD is better, no HD-DVD is better... From a technical perspective, (the quality of the movie), they are the exact same thing. Same codec’s go on both disks. BD did not win because it was “Better”, they only won because there was more support for it. I only care that it won because I have a BD player in my PS3. If it lost though, It’s no big deal to me... it just would have meant I had to pay $100 for the player down the road. The world does not come to an end for me regardless of who wins.
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HD DVD has better interactive features, but Blu-ray is catching up. Blu-ray has more space and can therefore can have more on the discs or better encodes.
HD DVD's scratch like DVDs and Blu-rays are unscratchable.
There are differences, and fanboys argue either way based on which one they want to win. For me, Blu-ray has always been the better format because it's technically capable of more space (in theory and current pratice) and it's unscratchable. The space issue is more of a PC backup thing (DVDs replacing CDs really helped that), and the major problem with DVDs is scratching. Far too many rentals have them and it's nice to know I can't cause them.
Being able to watch the disc every time without worrying about it skipping is far more important to me than picture-and-picture and internet features. So far PIP is only for commentaries and those just got added to Blu-ray anyway. Game features are going to be added to Blu-ray, so we'll see how that goes.
