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1. Comment - HD DVD: Blu-ray Has Problems

   (Jan 16, 2006 - 2:50 PM)

   Don't listen to rumours. Both formats will fully support h.264 compression.

2. Comment - HD DVD: Blu-ray Has Problems

   (Jan 10, 2006 - 12:31 AM)

   I know all about layered disks - that's not what I'm talking about here. Several people - including the quote I included - were indeed talking about using both sides of the disk - not using different layers.

3. Comment - HD DVD: Blu-ray Has Problems

   (Jan 9, 2006 - 8:55 PM)

   I keep reading HD-DVD fanboys saying how great it is to have a HD-DVD movie on one side and a normal DVD movie on the flip side of the disk. Am I the ONLY one who does NOT want to have disks that are used on both sides?
   
   It's hugely problematic when it comes to marking the disks and their content, and it makes it infinitely more likely that you'll scratch and dirty the disk quickly.
   
   This becomes even more important when it comes to using it for a data disk in your computer.
   
   Cowboybebop wrote:
   "Actually It would be 30, 45 or possibly 60GB flavors as they wouldnt need the other side of the disc to be the 15g dvd version of a movie for blank media on the pc. So imagine that 30g burns on each side :D"
   
   That scary prospect alone could scare me AWAY from HD-DVD. I do NOT ever want to have writable surfaces on both sides of my removable storage *shudder* The big companies might find ways to manage to still stamp their disks and protect them a bit from wear and tear - but my home-burned disks would die before I needed the data backed up on them again if they were used double-sided.
   
   At this point I'm not crazy about either format, but then a lot of things aren't known about either format yet. I will reserve my judgement until they've been finalized and actual units for sale are out. Then it will be possible to decide which is the superior technology. Until then all you/we are doing are blowing wind with our behinds when we try to say one format will be clearly superior...
   
   I will join the critique of the jounalistic standard of the article though. BetaNews may well have talked to Blu-Ray too, but if so it should have been put together in ONE article. Anyone linked to this article - as was I - will see a completely biased (and partly outright lying) smear campaign against one format by someone on the other side. That's just not jounalism - that's idiocy. Like allowing the false statement about the $1800 pricemark to stand unrefuted - that's weak, very weak jounalism.