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Gizmodo today posted a statistical comparison of over 300 HD DVD and Blu-ray reviews published at High-Def Digest since the start of the high-def format wars last Spring. Their findings? Overall video quality between the two formats is nearly identical, however Blu-ray titles were slightly, but definitely superior in audio playback, while HD DVD titles had far superior standard def features and moderately superior high-def features.

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Originally posted by poolpro:

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HD-DVD hands down.Better video and audio.

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Originally posted by poolpro:

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HD-DVD hands down.Better video and audio.

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don't know what you are basing that on but look earlier in the thread.

This article is awsome, not sure if it's been posted, it's old but very detailed.

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My vote goes to blu ray. Better name, more space, better protective surface(unfortunately pricier). Much bigger theoretical limit on space. More support behind it.

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Who cares about a name,that means nothing unless the product is good.More space,well HD-DVD has a new disc that is Triple layered which has more space than Blu-ray.Better Protective surface,are yu kidding me? Blu-ray has the worst protective surface since the data is written so close to the surface that any scratch can mess up the disc permanently.Enough said. I'm out.

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You are freakin retarded poolpro

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Originally posted by error5:

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poolpro has brought up a couple of points that need to be clarified:

1. As far as I know, the triple layer 51 gigabyte disc spec has not been submitted for approval to the DVD Forum yet and there is concern as to whether current HD-DVD players and drives will be able to read movies released on triple layer discs. There is also speculation that the triple layer format will be used primarily for PC data storage and not for movie distribution. The reason for this is the VC-1 codec which allows for more efficient encoding while maintaining video quality. Example: the 187-minute film King Kong easily fits into a double layer 30 GB disc and is considered demonstration-class when it comes to video quality.

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In the last few days a number of Web sites and blogs have reported the format has been submitted for approval to the DVD Forum and some have said that approval has been received, but Toshiba says nothing of the sort has happened.

?We?re puzzled ourself by where these reports came from,? said Junko Furuta, a spokeswoman for the company in Tokyo. She said Toshiba hasn?t made any further announcements about the disc since CES, and it wasn?t submitted to any steering committees during this week?s DVD Forum meetings in Tokyo.

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