HD-DVD has a pretty good lead right now. This is no surprise. The players are cheaper (or, were before the PS3) more plentiful, and came out months before the BD players.
HD-DVD also had a lead in disc manufacturing at first but that gap has closed. There are now like 157 HD-DVD discs in print and 155 BD I believe.
The first batch of BD were single layer (27GB) and had to use heavy MPEG2 compression, but just in the last month the factories have been pushing out dual-layer BD (54GB) with much better compression, so the quality gap is also closing fast.
By this time next year the war will really be heating up, with more and cheaper players hitting the market, more movies, and greater consumer awareness. BD hasn't even started their real advertising push. Hell the Sony player that was so delayed JUST hit the store shelves last week...
Technically BD is superior, and has more studios signed on.
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HD-DVD has a pretty good lead right now. This is no surprise. The players are cheaper (or, were before the PS3) more plentiful, and came out months before the BD players.
HD-DVD also had a lead in disc manufacturing at first but that gap has closed. There are now like 157 HD-DVD discs in print and 155 BD I believe.
The first batch of BD were single layer (27GB) and had to use heavy MPEG2 compression, but just in the last month the factories have been pushing out dual-layer BD (54GB) with much better compression, so the quality gap is also closing fast.
By this time next year the war will really be heating up, with more and cheaper players hitting the market, more movies, and greater consumer awareness. BD hasn't even started their real advertising push. Hell the Sony player that was so delayed JUST hit the store shelves last week...
Technically BD is superior, and has more studios signed on.