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I don't care so much for how well the Pop-up menus work...

Posted by oscar on July 16, 2007 at 19:18:36:
Instead, I'm far more interested in the movie playback quality. Both formats have their fair share of video duds and masterpieces and your results will vary with the movies/studios you select. Even the "masterpieces" have their video issues. Of course, anytime the studios go with a high(er) bit video encode, it shows they are putting a little TLC into giving us good PQ and the results show. The jury is still out on what constitutes a "good enough' video bitrate for outstanding PQ but I'm betting on Blu-Ray to continue to have an edge in this regard until HD-DVD convinces me otherwise. Blu-ray has hit a few home runs with their high(er) video bitrate encodes on 50G discs. Can't say the same for HD-DVD yet; maybe King Kong but I think it's been trumped already. YMMV.