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Most of this "format war" is a marketing ploy

Posted by 4season on September 11, 2007 at 09:37:34:
50 gigabytes HD DVD, 50 gigabyte Blu-Ray; it doesn't really matter to anyone except some marketing types. The bandwidth issue is a red herring, because you can get around that with lossless compression schemes like TrueHD. And your chances of encountering TrueHD on an HD DVD movie are actually pretty good, since mandatory support for same is part of the basic spec.

What's far more important than these technical tidbits is that you get movies you want to watch, and the transfer/restoration work is good.