With the beginning of a New Year comes the good news for consumers, Blue Ray has taken another step towards victory, with it giving us the hope of ending the long battle between HD DVD of Toshiba and Blue Ray disk of Sony.
Time Warner's Warner Bros. studio has stopped supporting the HD DVD format and will now work exclusively with Sony's Blu-ray.With this it seems likely that the balance has tipped permanently in favor of Sony.Warner Bros CEO Barry Meyer contend that the competing formats create confusion that is keeping either format from mass acceptance. But, they say Blu-ray has been the clear consumer winner so far and going with that format makes the most sense going forward.This is a good news for Hollywood, as it will end the confusion of consumers and will enable them to go with next-gen DVDs.
Let me try to brief about the differences the two technologies
Capacity
Cost
The 0.65 aperture for HD DVD vs. 0.85 aperture for Blu-ray—thus also making the two pickups technically incompatible despite using lasers of the same type.Blue Ray is definitely costlier than HD DVDs as a special hard coating must also be applied to Blu-ray discs, so their surface is sufficiently resilient enough to protect the data a mere 0.1mm beneath. The added benefit of keeping the data layer closer to the surface, however, is more room for extra layers.
I always believed that HD DVD was of no competition with Blue Ray , it was just a corporate fight between two old rivals Toshiba and Sony which i knew will end with the technology which has the potential to be a future technology. As things are getting computerized there will be always an ever increasing need for more storage space which clearly means one must support a technology which has the potential to expand to max which will definitely rate Blue Ray ahead.
Another silent reason which caused this battle was that Blue Ray is developed in Java which lead the rival company Microsoft supporting HD DVD and even today it is still standing by it. Well Well i don't see Microsoft changing its view point by any means but still i believe as the other big corporate house are in favor of Blue Ray it will end soon with Blue Ray standing a WINNER !
Time Warner's Warner Bros. studio has stopped supporting the HD DVD format and will now work exclusively with Sony's Blu-ray.With this it seems likely that the balance has tipped permanently in favor of Sony.Warner Bros CEO Barry Meyer contend that the competing formats create confusion that is keeping either format from mass acceptance. But, they say Blu-ray has been the clear consumer winner so far and going with that format makes the most sense going forward.This is a good news for Hollywood, as it will end the confusion of consumers and will enable them to go with next-gen DVDs.
Let me try to brief about the differences the two technologies
Capacity
| Blu-Ray | HDDVD | |
|---|---|---|
| ROM single layer: | 25GB | 15GB |
| ROM dual layer: | 50GB | 30GB |
| Highest test: | 100GB | 45GB |
| Theoretical limit: | 200GB | 60GB |
Cost
The 0.65 aperture for HD DVD vs. 0.85 aperture for Blu-ray—thus also making the two pickups technically incompatible despite using lasers of the same type.Blue Ray is definitely costlier than HD DVDs as a special hard coating must also be applied to Blu-ray discs, so their surface is sufficiently resilient enough to protect the data a mere 0.1mm beneath. The added benefit of keeping the data layer closer to the surface, however, is more room for extra layers.
I always believed that HD DVD was of no competition with Blue Ray , it was just a corporate fight between two old rivals Toshiba and Sony which i knew will end with the technology which has the potential to be a future technology. As things are getting computerized there will be always an ever increasing need for more storage space which clearly means one must support a technology which has the potential to expand to max which will definitely rate Blue Ray ahead.
Another silent reason which caused this battle was that Blue Ray is developed in Java which lead the rival company Microsoft supporting HD DVD and even today it is still standing by it. Well Well i don't see Microsoft changing its view point by any means but still i believe as the other big corporate house are in favor of Blue Ray it will end soon with Blue Ray standing a WINNER !
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