Another reason not to buy either Blu-Ray or HD-DVD. The solution for storing HD contents does not have to be larger volume, but can be better compression instead. Practically any HD movie can fit on DVD9 if compressed in MPEG-4 instead of the normal MPEG-2, and you can simply use mencoder to do it. And almost any DVD player with DivX/XviD reading capability (and HDMI output) will do.
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Another reason not to buy either Blu-Ray or HD-DVD.
The solution for storing HD contents does not have to be larger volume, but can be better compression instead. Practically any HD movie can fit on DVD9 if compressed in MPEG-4 instead of the normal MPEG-2, and you can simply use mencoder to do it.
And almost any DVD player with DivX/XviD reading capability (and HDMI output) will do.