Blu-ray or HD-DVD your personal choice?

Gunlok · **Flamebo** nForce Aware

From a practicality view point which format would you the consumer edge for?

A: Blu-Ray
B: HD-DVD

P.S. I couldn't find the poll posting thing Sad

mini · nForce Padawan

HD-DVD

Screwy · nForced

powerarmour · **--[papameister]--** Mod Squad

HD-DVD

thegrommit · nForced²

Whichever turns out to have the movies I want to watch.

onepairofpant · **--?-?-?--** Ultra nForced

Blu-Ray

Seawolf · Ultra nForced

Well, HD DVD, but for the first year or two, neither.

mei · nForce Aware

I think I will wait until many drives will be available. But I think Blu-Ray is going to be the one for Movies so...

daglesj · nForced²

For the moment neither. Quite happy with a properly mastered DVD.

You have to ask to whom are these formats a benefit for? The consumer or the studios that need the product churn due to falling ticket sales at the box office?

I'm kind of hoping that the consumers show the same indifference to these formats as they did with DVD-A and SACD. This was one case where the consumer as a whole couldnt really feel any benefit over the current CD format they knew and loved. Its only been 5 years since most folks started their DVD collections. Most consumers will hopefully just say "blimey not another box I'll have to buy!?" and just not bother. Especially as most people have only just bought widescreen CRT TVs. They wont just be dumping them overnight to get a HDMI port.

When DVD arrived I was happy to change over. I felt that VHS had run its course. However, I still feel that DVD has plenty of life left in it. Its been far more successful than any of the producers must have imagined and the consumer could really see the benefit. I dont like to be told just a few years later that what I bought is now old hat. Give it 10 years or so and thats fine but not just 5 as that feels like they are taking the p*ss.

Let the formats fail, let HDTV sink slowly into the publics conciousness and hearts and then introduce a single HD disk format in say another 3-4 years.

MiniMax · **Jabba the Hutt** Ultra nForced

I want whatever format has the highest capacity for re-writeable discs. I think that is Blue-ray, right? Something like 25-50 GB?

I am happy with current DVD's for movies. I don't watch that many movies on DVD, and don't have a large collection either. And I wouldn't mind if I had to insert a 2nd DVD halfway through the movie, if capacity is a problem when distributing HD contents. A break 45 minutes into the movie would actually be nice I think.

I want Blue-ray(?) to succeed, purely because it will make drive prices down, and performance up, for what I want it for: Data backup.