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BDs provide more capacity. Period.

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In Reply to: RE: Nice info, but you left out the most interesting part of the press release: posted by Audiophilander on August 20, 2007 at 14:59:28

When you're talking about a/v content, especially 1080p and lossless PCM, capacity is a critical issue.

You just can't get around that.

It's about specs and physical limitation of the respective formats.

Microsoft can dump all the $$$ it wants into prolonging this "format war" but wouldn't it be nicer if it used to money to improve the specs of HD DVD to give consumers a better product? Too bad quality ain't what MS is about.

Maybe this will play out a lot like SACD vs DVD-A. Both formats may make incremental gains (albeit blu-ray's gains are twice HD DVD's) until the industry decides to get behind something else.

Whatever happens is certainly beyond my control. All I can do is stand behind my decision to go with the format I perceive as better for the consumer. Whatever your reasons for adopting HD DVD, auph, you can't say it was to support the higher quality format.
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