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To be fair, the differences in audio/video are subtle/non-existent to J6P.

In Auph's case, lossless audio just isn't a priority and I guess he's perfectly satisfied with the video presentation he's getting on HD DVD; maybe he hasn't had much exposure to the later Blu-ray releases with high bit rate AVC encodes on 50G discs. I've found a number of HD DVD releases to have inconsistent PQ with too many "soft" scenes sometimes intermixed with scenes with superb PQ (though I've seen the same thing with the Blu-ray releases on 25G discs). I suspect this is a result of lower average bitrates because of bandwidth/storage limitations; but I can't really point to any proof until we have a number of "re-releases" of the same film using significantly different video encodes/bitrates for comparisons.

HD DVD does have one argument going for it concerning the Blu-Ray sales advantage: Blu-ray has thus far had a big edge in day/date releases of new movies because of the better studio support and the biggest HD media sales have been with day/date new movie releases. This may or may not swing the other way depending on which studios have the biggest blockbusters down the road.

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