HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray vs. Downloading

[KamilyonEnterprise]

Too bad for you Blu Ray won.

[ZetaSimsoy]

i like BR if possible, but i think DVD because as BR goes up DVD will be basically free.

[NielsShoe]

Can never trust downloads Ive never found a download to look good as a legal DVD disk nevermind Blu-Ray.

[jordanthewizard]

Physical format, go to the store, buy movie come back home in 30 mins or less, watch movie and get a ton of special features, download movie, wait 8 hours for movie to download, get movie only, no special features whatsoever.

[xDeMoNiCReaPeRx]

i don't care wich is better as long as i get what i want by buying or downloading who cares lol

[daneviler]

He rigth, if people really think that were going to have the same bandwith in 10 to 15yrs as we do now is only fooling themselves. I think blu ray looks beautiful no dought but try and convince somebody like my dad whom is in his 60s to buy a $300 BRP and 30$ BRDs. He'll stick with his old vhs and dvd.

[joeydrawz]

I have nothing against you but downloads are going to be a thing of the past downloads are just a cheadp as way to get out of buying a movie and plus downloaded hd movies dont look nearley as good.

Now its good fore song because if your listeng to a cad and somthing heavy drops on the ground the song skips movies dont have that oriblem

[dddaaannn360]

i dont know why but i like having a physical copy of something

[bobburnstein]

haha i really want to

[Subtalvik2]

Downloading is a fad, it takes space on your HDD, disks don't. BD is 50 gb, now imagine a 50 gb download just to watch a movie, what if you don't have enough space, or what if it gets deleted? Disks don't take space, which is why I prefer them.

[orrin4]

Shrankenhiemer your a fuckin moron, why don't YOU get a life? Yiu low self esteem having loser.

Either way, I COMPLETELY agree, discs are for old people who listen to 80's rock. Ahh! I hate the 80's >=( It's so rear when I use CD's, mainly to play xbox 360 games, other than that, CD's are pretty useless.

[Watcher3223]

IMO, downloadable video content to the degree being talked about here may, more or less, be a fad. This will be particularly true if control by the studios over the content become too heavy-handed, which they will be to a far greater degree than with physical media.

You only have to look at downloaded music compared to music ripped from a CD to see how the music industry is treating your fair use rights.

[nooblar23]

lol asif this guy has a wife

[dodobird116]

somebody send this nerd a virus -,-

set this dumbass straight

[Shrankenhiemer]

ZOMG your such a friggin' NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE­EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE­EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRR­RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDd­D!!!! GET A LIFE!!!!!

[EvolutionStratus]

I hate to break it to you but downloading is not the way to go. You have any idea on how much room that will take? I'm sorry but unless you have 100s of TB of room on a PC or some kind of large server, Downloads are decades away. Blu-Ray is clearly the best way to go. Besides, this is the hard copy era. Downloads for music is one thing. For films it;s another. Also I like the special features that comes with a Blu-Ray which I'm sure a download will lack. Sorry but downloads has a long way to go.

[dharamDSM]

if u didnt did ur research hard-drives are getting cheaper and cheaper

[EvolutionStratus]

Cheaper maybe but as someone once stated what if you lose the downloaded video due to a corrupt harddrive thats beyond repair? Also as I said before, disc-space is not exactly my only reason why the downloading age is not quite here yet and won't be for decades.

[tokyoronin]

Yeah and when your space in your hard drive gets taken up you have to spend another 300$ or erase some movies. People want a hard copy plus PS3 pwns Xbox beyond Xbox 4 discs to run a game while PS3 only 1 disc Blue is the future.

[FugginBarstod]

Until Broadband hits T3 as standard then downloads won't replace DVD or Blu ray. Downloads also wear down the storage medium quickly increasing the potential to lose all of your movies. I thinks discs are so much safer and quicker to access!

[hughring]

I will always want a tangible product over downloaded data. What if I lose this movie data I downloaded? What about the cost of storage? Give me my blu-ray disc man!

[11994455]

exactly

[sniker45]

dude you just need to go to the pirate bay downloading are here happening know they cant keep there blue ray junk

[sniker45]

hd files are to big download anyway iam really not that intrested in blue ray at all i ve found it quite easy to down load a good quality dvix dvd rip code then simple uprate the original code to hd dvix watch the thing declare the movie crap ie waste harddrive room delete the crap,but from my point view the whole blue ray hdd disc dedate is really big corprates pushing oslolete technolgy as a consumer i pefer to download and they are way outstep with how i view and watch media

[alphadec007]

can somebody please erase this moron!.

[mastergremlin]

Downloading may be the future but now is Bluray. Why? Because they have the most support. More support, more movies.

[lunken86]

lol i dont hear a fuck (seriusly)

[MessiahUK]

Downloading? You must be joking? Your average consumer wants to buy a player and then buy discs for it, simple as that. Downloading will exist alongside physical discs for the simple fact that the majority are still, and always will be, ignorant of any other method.

[RenegadeMaster07]

downloading will be the future of it all. Formats don't really mean anything.

Blu-ray has more space so it should've just won straight away, but HD-DVD had a better compression technique so the quality was the same but used less disc space. Blu-ray uses old crappy MPEG2, which means both of them have about the same space for extras and special features. If blu-ray used better compression it would have so much more.

[garrettloy]

LOL U HAEV A WIEF?!!

OMG LOL!

[ieatwiteoutforfun]

I loled also. His voice is sooo high.

[garrettloy]

aye, lol. Posting in 12y/o AOL is fun.

[OregonVet]

I don't have an opinion about this guy, but. It isn't uncommon for gays to refer to each other as the "wife". NTTAWWT.

[patpatwithagun]

this guy is gay

[sharklover928]

First of all, spit Bill Gate's jizz out of your mouth before you hit record.

Secondly, downloading multi-gigabyte movies is impractical for 99.999% of the market. Without a complete overhaul of the internet infrastructure between the backbone and people's homes(e.g. fiber to the home) it's not going to happen. In 20 years after the whole internet is replaced with something faster, and storage is pennies per gigabyte downloading may win, but for the next 20 years it's just a pipe dream.

[kiroken]

Do you really think I need to download an HD movie? F*ck it! I don't need to spend a lot for a f*ucking movie just for a little better quality!

Blu-ray VS HD-dvd is a war between little numbers, it's not even possible to compare it with the normal dvd market (or downloading XD )

[lucasrem]

If they remove the compression i buy disks, but they still use compression in 1080p??? soo not sharp in fast moving scenes.

Torrent downloads are original copies of the 1080p format, the same file size as the disk 10 too 20 gig.

[fenderboy01189]

Im not getting any audio!!!

[random255]

To the guy not getting any audio: consider yourself lucky.

[michael50000BE]

just move the sound bar to total silence and than just put it back to the right and it should work, i had the same problem (so not the sound on your pc but the button on the youtube movie)

[joshopsho]

wife?

as in his water cooled quadcore?

I bet she could cook supporting 40" screens!

[vaynerocker]

downloading could be nice if you wanted to watch a movie right then and there, but I think Disc will always be around anyways how would you even transport a download??? well if you wanted to you would have to burn it to a disc... back to square 1

[studentbrown]

yea the disk will be around, jus like newspapers, u dont need them with all the technology but people still prefer them

[M0NTOYA42]

5TFU

[DeltaForceSFODD]

Is this guy a fuckin moron?Downloads wont be a reality for a very very long time.Enough with this microsoft bullshit of highly compressed crappy audio quality.Give me a hard copy anyday.If download is the future then it will certainly be a very sad day indeed.

[larusj]

im sorry? your either very old or very young to not understand this. Downloading will and actually is right now. Who the hell wants to go to cinema or video store and spend shit loads of money, candy and stuff. I first started to download millions of movies last summmer (watching with my friends of course) and have been saving alot of money. But for my view til now... downloading will be the "future" But it is one thing that i am so god damn sure of.... and that is that this guy is gay...

[ojjuice19]

consumers like having physical representation of what they're going to watch. That's fact. look it up.Maybe tech nerds would want downloads,but casual consumers who just want to watch movies from time to time, would want that cd better than a file in the computer. it's just human psychology. Showing off your blu ray collection looks nice or let ppl borrow it. That hard drive could crash and delete ur files with ur movies, then ur screwed.

[harveyosullivan]

what about streaming?

[Eientatsu]

Its also a fact that tons of people more than just tech nerds download illegal movies all the time. SO this means that they're not opposed to the format.

[addmeque]

MARRIED? you got to be kidding me. what kind of horrible beast would marry this fucking loser. she must be like5 feet tall and about a deuce / deuce and a half(thats 200/250pounds)

[Josue166]

HA!

[crazymaria12]

You've got problems

[ieatwiteoutforfun]

This guy is a fucking faggot.

[Mikeg73070]

Heres my take Both are great quaity. Blu-Ray argues that they are high capacity dics(this is true).Hd could make a dual-layer. Blu-Ray has locked up the Disney account,another great victory. BUT, Hd-Dvd is not dead, They just locked in a couple exclusives (paramount & WB maybe?) And they signed an exclusive with the entire porn industry(like it or not,big bucks there!) It's not over yet! anyone agree??

[blyfo]

wtf confusin for me, does he mean we won't buy dvd's soon we will just download films etc from the internet? then store them where?(blu ray) and what if you lose connection? or don't have internet access and what if you want to take ur films with you. fuckin blu ray you cock.

well maybe im miss informed. can anyone enlighten me?

[xlemetzas]

Dude if you can't distinguish 1080p from 1080i I strongly suggest an eye test

[Zonde32]

yea

[donvito2288]

You my friend are a fucking moron! thank you thank you *bows*

[Zonde32]

he needs a Eye surgery.. those glasses arent working

[donvito2288]

LOL indeed

[Zonde32]

hehe :P

[rozgar23]

Damn what a joke im crying in my laughs HAHAHAHA!!

[jagshemash3]

1080p is better, But I really am not into downloading HD allthe way

[saelaird]

I personally feel that consumer PREFERS a tangible disk which is independant of hard-drives or internet connection/bandwidth issues. It seems silly to suggest the future is purely downloading.

Looking at the market share between HD-DVD and BlueRay, from an academic perspective one has to argue a possible share between downloads and BlueRay, particularly when BlueRay becomes home-recordable.

To finish, I will download everything I need in the future and then BACK-UP ON BLUERAY. HD-DVD is dying.

[Lukiebaggs]

this dude is married?

[blyfo]

LMFAO oh my god,

a wife, i beg to differ

[kahuna390]

no i think we will stay with disks because the publishers make so much more money of it, even though they have to make the dvd/blu-ray/hddvd, they still make a more giant profit, if downloading took over then piracy would be encouraged, and anyway on side by side comparison the blu-ray is so much better in quality than the download, and anyway people arent all goin to sit around there computer and watch a film cuase tht is just sad

[Lothrik]

Am I the only one that was kind of expecting "Downloading" to mean pirated movies? :)

Got my hopes up for nothing..

[notjustabarcode]

Did you know the average download speed in the UK is about 3mbps, and if your like me with fibreoptic phone lines you dont get broadband at all. So for now discs are the better option for me

[jaffaonutube]

wat a retard!!

[poggy913]

hey i can't understand anything he's saying, can someone translate from nerd to english.

PS... HE HAS A WIFE?!?! lol i'm kidding.

[GLeNss]

Aye she came from eBay, one of those shitty deals ya no

[DoomedEnigma]

Downloading movies in North America probably wont be possible for another 10 years or so. But if you go to Japan or South Korea it is already possible there. Japan's average download speed is 61mbps and South Korea has 45 mbps.

[bigdima3]

stupid prick

[Maxxlenoxx]

Sorry Chris, but I don't agree with you... there's a portion of the community that will like the download market but still most of average users will buy physical DVDs because it's the easiest way to go. So I think the market will be split between download and DVD's (sounds like Bluray is winning the battle right now).

Cheers !

[ps3people]

yes downloading will win... in about 15 years. broadband speeds are to slow and the internet is not secure enough. and people will want to watch movies on there couch like they do now. bluray and hddvd are about 20 times less complicated than downloading.

[mashup707]

nerd!

[chavygeeza]

lispin' nerd bag

[alphadec007]

Every moron who don't know shit is supporting downloading e.g DRM!.

Well for me I don't think it is fun to PAY everytime I wanna se my fav movie!. So think I have seen the james bond movies 1000 times..... so guess I would be living in a tent! if I had to pay every fucking time I wanted to see the bond movies.

SO PEOPLE I support Blu-ray!.

[varsha1]

MPEG-2 - enhanced for HD, also used for playback of DVDs and HDTV recordings.

MPEG-4 AVC - part of the MPEG-4 standard also known as H.264 (High Profile and Main Profile).

SMPTE VC-1 - standard based on Microsoft's Windows Media Video (WMV) technology.

Please note that this simply means that all Blu-ray players and recorders will have to support playback of these video codecs, it will still be up to the movie studios to decide which video codec(s) they use for their releases.

[Paddy260991]

Bluray has more companies' support, Downloading takes too long, and would be too much of a hastle, because

a) not everyone is connected to the net

b) not everyone has broadband

c) not everyone with broadband has an unlimited connection or a fast connection

d) I format my harddrives regularly, so if I still did that, I'd lose a lot of movies.

And HD-DVD died a long time ago :P

[AiDaN91]

lol he looks like the dude of arrested development.

[skrapp]

lockergnome....What happens when you run out of disk space,or waste it on something you dont want anymore and it takes some of your hard drives space away permanently (when you delete it sometimed) over and over on future drives you may buy?

[usageee]

I agree. It's only a matter of time before downloading is preferable to the masses. Commercial enterprises will have no choice but to support it or they will get left behind.

[noname98967]

I remember not too long ago when people said "it'll take forever" to download PC games using digital distro and here I am using Steam downloading my PC games. Look with Mpeg4 compression and preloading it wouldn't take THAT long to download a 2 hour HD Movie. Videophiles won't like it (Lossy compression OH NOES!!1) but seriously who cares? Digital distribution is the future. In the meantime you optical disc fanbois can continue having your "War".

[duba3988]

dont feed the trolls lol

[deraldargon]

You should buy grammar lessons, if you have so much money.

[FreebiesMan9007]

HD DVD FTW

[LuxorStudios]

How many people have like 100MB/s internet connections. when u get it on the disc, u get to stor it somewhere else and keep some for collection.

[TheBestD1DrifteR]

NERD

[xanther]

also, i agree most people cannot tell the difference between 1080i and 1080p and neither can you. i can almost certainly *assume* that because there IS no difference, visually of course. (Look up 2:3 pull down) and you'll know what I am talking about. What else bothers me about the way you jump from deinterlacing to resolution is that you are trying to blur the lines (no pun intended) to prove your point. You are not wrong, but you are definitely not correct.

[raywoodnyc]

On most televisions you cannot see the difference, however on high-end models such as pioneer elite, runco, and fujitsu it is highly evident. The problem is that as time goes on the difference will become greater and greater. Also remember that Blu-Ray not only supports 1080p, but also has a better ability to increase contrast and color, and that as new tv's are developed this is what they will upgrade and not resolution.

[xanther]

To keep my msg short I'll skip the niceties. downloading is just a mode of transportation and not a tangible format. once you download the movie, where will you store it? on a high capacity disc of your choice i presume and since the standard dvd is the most prolific and cost effective, will it be standard dvd? well if you say you wont back it up and just watch it and dispose of it, then it is just a pay per play and still not a comparison. (so your basic comparison is very weak here)

[raywoodnyc]

90% of current film downloads have encryption software to prevent burning correctly. This is done to prevent bootlegging.

[bankertobe5]

"HD will not go beyond 1080p" no shit, Sherlock! and you sell this stuff?

[raywoodnyc]

You obviously do not realize that the public by and large still doesn't know shit about HD.

[raywoodnyc]

I sell high end home theater, and we don't even sell HD-DVD. Downloading sucks because the audio mix is weak as hell, they have no mobility when compared to disks. HD will not go beyond 1080p, scientists have reached 3060p on over 80in. screens, but the difference can only be seen from 20ft. away. Blu-Ray kills, f*** HD-DVD und Downloads.

[veos]

Downloading wont win because of hard Drive faliour posibility the consumers DO care most shops are recomending blu Ray over HD-DVD because there are more companies on Blu-Ray at this present moment aswell as the PS3, More stand alone Blu-Ray players have been sold compared to HD-DVD the movie 300 sold double the amount on Blu-Ray oompaired to HD-DVD.

[willyboxc]

First off this pirillo guy is a dumb idiot and a stupid geek, of course BLU-Ray is going to win over downloading, and on his other video "360 vs. ps3 vs. wii" of course Playstation3!! Blu-ray + PS3 = SWEET

[JYK10]

HD-DVD is The Best

[halojames1]

i got that hd-dvd thing for my 360 its nice and was cheap

[jmontague]

Hd dvd will cheaper and more movie companies are going to hd dvd if u download and have a hard drive failure opps u just lost all ur movies/content as when u have a physical disc u still got it

[trl123x]

as far as im conserned blu- ray is going to win' because hard drives are not large enough and internet speed is (15kbps:MAX for downloading 20mbps for browsing) it ill take hours to download the 50gb movie in a non-spacy hdd which means if u got 240GB hdd laptop it will fill up ur hdd w/ 4 movies, downloads will become standard by 2018-2024

[alexzeratul]

Don't know about you but my download speed is about 800 kbytes/s....

[Athonline]

100 kbytes :( and I pay like 60 dollars to have those 100 per month!

[parshan123]

im sorry but i have to disagree, you probably dont even know much about HD DVD or Blu-ray, i own both and i love both of them. Im sure that both will survive till 2009 and 1 format will win at 2009/2010 (the time people really get into highdef), downloading will co-exist but its definatly not going to win! People want to own hd disk not download them for 2 hours plus you cant get 1080p via download

[Colsworl]

Not going to happen for years, hard drives are just too small these days. Untill we see 1TB hard drives becoming the standard in laptops and such it aint going to happen and besides most 360's have a 20gb hdd, 14 when it finishes initializing. 14gb is nothing when it comes to hd downloads.

In the end I do think downloading will become huge but I feel there will always be a place for a hard copy, ie. disk format.

[JayProductionz]

you can totally see the diff between HD and blu ray

[lduk]

Downloads are the future not now. Lets say a HD movie is 15gb. How long would that take on a above average broadband speed f 8meg? A friken long time. And how many people have 8meg or more? Not many. So it makes sence to go for a disc. I would go for a blu-ray because there are more studios supporting it, and there selling over double the amount of HD-DVD's and, they hold more space. I would say owned.

[Plaguespitter12]

This guy is a fuckin dipshit. downloads would take forever on a dial up computer, as of I have DSL. And also if you do download, one HD movie would take a shit load of memory out of your hardrive.

[masterjego]

Actually computers can get very expensive but hey what do you know? Nothing, that is right nothing at all.

[jordler]

you do know if you fill up a full blu ray disc at 50gbs that downloading that content would take forever. more then 50% of noth american homes dont even have the net most of them have dail up! even most hi speed nets are only a few mbs at the fastest for like 50$! . there will always be media formats out there. plus only massive hard drives like those 2tb ones could hold out of HD content. what you are talking about is going to takes like 50 years

[masterjego]

Well you dont know what your talking about as far as internet. Lets see for dialup we were paying i think about 10 bucks a month and for partial T1 were paying about 50 bucks a month. So yes there is a big difference between a few mbs and a few hundred mbs.

[SuCKeRPunCH187]

not to mention HD downloads are 720p blu ray and HD DVD are 1080p. And you get extras on a 2nd disc. I will only download movies to rent them.

[CptGreedle]

Only a few geeks want to download all their films. The ISPs are not ready for ppl to download all their films, it will overload the systems. Downloading movies in HD is a huge undertaking, and all the downloads I've seen are all highly compressed and are not close to the quality of Blu or HD. Sure someday downloads will be the way to go, but that won't be for 5 or 10 years.

Ppl who do not own a 360, or hi speed internet, or a fast computer, will not be able to download movies.

[arsenalsuxxx]

Downloads my ASS, get outta here and stop believing whateva that bill gates says. People prefer physical equipment rather than a hard drive so if there's one virus there goes all your collection for which u paid 100's of $ at XBL or any on demand website. And your imaginary friends aren't gonna make the decision the consumer will....dumbass

[GrandKeizerGhidorah]

I dont feel comfertable buying software. Computers arn't very reliable. And, most of the major studios have already sided with HD-DVD.

[arsenalsuxxx]

@GrandKei........... whateva his name is

WTF HD-DVD has 4 studios Universal (exclusive), Warner and Paramount, new line (neutral) so thats 4 artard while Blu ray has sony, fox, MGM, lionsgate, disney/buena vista (exclusive)and 8 for Blu Ray get your facts right and stop dreaming of whats never gonna happen stupid fanboy you can keep your stupid ideas to yourself.

[GrandKeizerGhidorah]

you don't have to be a dick about it. I never claimed to be an expert on the whole thing. I dont know how any one can get so upset over a little comment on YouTube. The whole point of commenting is to express your ideas.

[stupidiraqpeople]

no it won't blu ray take over

downloading takes for ever and reling on harddrive space to download what happens when you get a new computer that's right it's a little something called DRM

[jonboy460]

lol omg what if u have a download limit yhe what then lol and it astkes a wee while to download movies and games and the picture quality is not the same and blu has won it sold over 1 million in 1st week and most big names have signd up for blu ray lts of companys

[954821367]

he desnt mention that with the 360 download service once you play the movie you only have 24h before its gone or 5 days without watching it (i was disipointed with that:()

[mysonyps3]

I'll take hardware owned format disc to download any day. Especially BluRay w/scratch resistant coating! Easy to transport and I own it. Download can disapear, not transportable to play elswhere and you are in effect renting it!

[truthugdesire]

Downloads? Interesting, but most people dont download. They DvDs... My parents love movies! but they dont know how to download nor how to get online period... so many.. just maybe.. downloads are night ready for the take over.

[strykerzr350]

Speaking of downloading, a bar in my aera has something called a "ecast jukebox" any song that you want to play its there connected to the internet.

[Type59]

Average customer does not download it is all about accessibility. Even i would like to buy the physical disc because i can trade or sell it after.

[UnsounderGnome]

I couldn't agree more. Downloads all the way.

[Foshi]

Blu-Ray is currently in the lead of the HD format wars primarily because of so many strong first party movies. Personally, I don't see downloads out taking a physical medium anytime soon. Who really wants to download a massive gig HD movie when you can just go out and buy it and most likely get a ton of extras with it?

[Goolz]

Only takes me 30mins to download massive gig HD movies no my pc :)

[cafoxp]

oh lucky you....

[jeremey00]

I just buy regular DVD's.

[jergsden]

I wonder who's selling more movies right now?  Either of the HD disc formats or iTunes?

[carltardif]

I love your blogs so informative even though i don't understand a lot of it. I am sure it will help in the future Thanks !!