The Empire Kids

Well.....At Least One War Is Over!

For the past 2 years, people have been going back and forth with the question, should I go for HD-DVD or for Blu-Ray? I don't want to buy one format, it not succeed and I'm assed out with the loser! Both formats output high defenition video and data, what's the difference? Blu-Ray, developed by Sony, holds 25 gigabytes worth of space on a single layer disc and 50 on a dual layer disc. HD-DVD, developed by Toshiba and NEC, holds 15 gigabytes on a single layer disc and 30 gigabytes on a dual layer disc. Why should this matter? With that much more space, studios could make their disc releases with a crap load of special features and commentaries. The Sony Playstation 3, which capitalized on this format, allows them to do much more with the games they develop; huge production games such as Final Fantasy used to be 2-3 discs long, mainly becasue of the CG cutscenes, but now they will be able to flood the game with detailed cutscenes and still fit on one disc.
For a while both companies have been playing tug of war with studios signed to release movies with their format. HD-DVD had some big wig studios such as Warner Bros., Universal and Dreamworks. So at the time you could only get The Matrix Trilogy or Transfomers on HD-DVD. Blu-Ray has Disney, Sony Pictures, Fox...well the rest. Ever since Warner Bros. announced they were jumping ship to Blu-Ray exclusively, that kind of put a dent in the HD-DVD market. Just this past week, Toshiba announced that it was abandoning the HD format! That bit of news confirmed the battles' victor and after 2 years of waiting to see who comes on top, Ima jump on that PS3 bandwagon; it's the cheapest player on the market. Now, my ass has gotta go back to work. Peace!