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HD-DVD Outdoes Blu-Ray? FTW?!
January 13th, 2007 by Chufmoney

This is unconfirmed at this point but it appears that Toshiba, Microsoft’s partner in the HD format war, may be on the path to dealing another blow to the troubled Blu-Ray format. During the Consumer Electronics Show Toshiba showed off a HD-DVD disc that had a triple layered 51 GIG capacity. Click HERE for details. Though barely outdoing the 50 GIG capacity of Blu-Ray, it nonetheless stands to take away another advantage for Sony. Overall this has been a bad week for Sony.

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2 Responses to “HD-DVD Outdoes Blu-Ray? FTW?!”

  1. Christopher7xii Says:
    January 17th, 2007 at 2:21 am

    You do realize that the blu-ray disc is capable of 200gb, right? They stated a long time ago that 50gb would be the cap on HD-DVD, and 200gb on the blu-ray for potential space. I guess you didn’t read up much on it, eh?

  2. Aegies Says:
    January 17th, 2007 at 9:13 am

    Sony and the Blu-ray disc association have said that they have created 200 GB discs in “the lab”, but a) no one has ever seen one, and b) they wouldn’t be used for consumer applications, because they’d be too expensive. Practically speaking, and in reality currently, Blu-ray discs cap out at 50 GB, and even then, the majority of discs released are 25 GB. If the HD-DVD camp was able to release 50 GB discs cheaply (and that is questionable), then one of the Blu-ray camp’s biggest talking points would be gone. In my opinion, it doesn’t matter that much, as HD-DVDs currently look better than Blu-ray discs anyway, as the BDA studio partners insist on using mpeg-2 encoding for their discs, which is completely unnecessary, and leads to longer load times for movies.

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