There's not much debate to do about it. BluRay player can stock more stuff but the content is enough for a HD-DVD. HD-DVD is obviously less expensive. I would prefer to see BluRay as a burner & not watcthing movie.
The problem with BluRay is the reading speed to take advantage of it. Though as you know, BluRay movie should respect the 1X speed to stearm the movie. So pray to see it look better than the other.
Not exactly sure what you are getting at in regards to reading speed….
One of the other advantages of Blu-ray is its higher video data rate (54Mbps) than HD DVD (36Mbps), and of course SD DVD (10Mbps). Both Disney and Fox have suggested that they plan on including exclusive special features that would take advantage of BD's wider bandwidth. This was even brought up for discussion at last year's conference of DVD Producers and the video production department heads from several of the major studios.
I do not personally expect this to happen any time soon, or that these special features will be so compelling as to make a significant difference on sales, but Blu-ray does have an advantage in video transfer speeds. It also has a slight advantage in video reference velocity speeds.
As far as read/write speeds, both Blu-ray and HD DVD are more than three times greater than equivalent RPM SD DVD drives. In other words, a 2x BD drive has a 8.6 Mbs transfer rate, while a 2x SD DVD drive has only a 2.6 Mbs transfer rate. While current SD DVD drives have higher RPM drives, it wont be long until both BD and HD DVD drives will surpass them in actual R/W transfer speeds as new drives come out with higher RPMs. There are already plans on releasing an 8x BD drive as early as 2007, which would be equivalent to a 26x SD DVD drive…. and of course they already have surpassed SD DVD in higher video playback data rates.
Another advantage of Blu-ray is the proprietary hard coating technology it uses to protect the discs from scratches, dust, and fingerprints. BD specs require a higher Taber Abrasion and Impact resistance. In addition, the BD hard coating is also engineered to have a low surface energy so that dust is less likely to stick to the surface, and fingerprints are more likely to form droplets rather than expand or stain the surface as they can with DVD.
For BD movies, this is not likely a big deal, unless you have kids with easy access to your DVDs, but with games, to have discs that are more resilient is a big plus!
BTW: The proposed 45G triple layer HD DVD disc was dropped from the final HD DVD specs for pre-recorded discs. This means for the entire lifetime of the format, there wont be any pre-recorded 45G HD DVD discs. In addition, the problem HD DVD has is that it uses the exact same disc structure as standard DVD, thus despite all efforts, after more than 10 years of development, no one has yet to make a mass produced triple layer DVD of any type.
The advantage of Blu-ray is not just having a higher capacity per layer, but it also can support several more layers than HD DVD due to its disc structure. TDK has already developed a 100G 4-layer BD disc, and is now working on a 200G 8-layer BD disc.
However, just like HD DVD, for pre-recorded discs, the final specs only support 2-layer discs. If these multi-layer BD discs are mass produced, they will be for PCs and recorders, and not for pre-recorded material – as the specs do not allow for it.
