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SvennoJ 1 day ago
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Chrkeller said:
JackHandy said:

I was an HD-DVD guy back then and was pissed that Sony forced Blu-ray onto the public via the PS3. Still think it was a weird format, but at least there was something physical to own.

Oh man, I completely forgot about that.  I bought a HD-DVD attachment for my xbox.  Was that the 360?  It came with King Kong or something.  

Yup, I still have my HD-DVD add-on as well. But replaced the couple good HD-DVDs I had with Blu-ray.

Out of the gate HD-DVD had some advantages over blu-ray since the codecs for blu-ray weren't ready yet. But at least the better format won this time and quickly. 15/30 GB 36 mbps vs 25/50 GB 54 mbps. Yet at first you mostly had single layer Blu-rays with mpeg 2 encodings.

Unfortunately HVD (4 to 6 TB) never arrived, it would have been nice to have whole series on a single disc.