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Originally Posted by mace1337 I was more or less kidding, but i think that blu ray has the technological advantage in terms of storage space, however, i believe they're still going to use mpeg2? I think everything these days should be mpeg4, because it consumes less bandwith, and they can use it to make HDTV cheaper. In stead of using a ~22 mbit stream, they can cut it in half to 10, this means more channels and cheaper TV. Also it can be used to record more hours of video on a disc, and having tons of extra features (which i dont care about) without affecting the quality of the main movie too much.
Blu ray + mpeg4 = winner IMO,
However, i really need to read up on all those other formats, especially the three HD-DVD variants  |
Both Blu-ray and HD-DVD are MPEG-2, and MPEG-4. Microsoft's HD DVD uses MPEG-4, or WMV.
If space is your priority, you should like HDD to win, not Blu-ray. And Blu-ray has hardly great advantage over HD-DVD in terms of space. It might be as easy as to produce 2-layer HD-DVD of 30GB than 23GB 1-layer Blu-ray. Even the 23GB version costs from US$15 to US$25. HD-DVD price will be more like US$1 or US$2 when they are first mass produced. Again, if you are going to say 23GB is still better than 15-20GB single layer HD-DVD, there are already 400GB HDDs that can be easily built inside HDTV recorders and DVD recorders and almost any PCs and notebooks.