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| Sonnie wrote:
All of this is Wayde and Bob's fault too... (as a result of one of your threads Wayde and your review post on the BD Bob)... so I got somebody to blame if it don't work out!  You both twisted my arm... threatened me, would have beat me up had I not done this... I would have never heard the end of it I'm sure.  |
You got that right! It's a good thing too!
I think you made the right choice. In any article (maybe I should write one for the blog) I am "secretly" and have always been rooting for HD DVD.
As far as I know HD DVD was the oldest.
Long long ago I was reading this website about an upcoming disk format for something called HDTV ... at the time it seemed like a very far ranging idea:
http://www.dvdsite.org/
But the format they were promoting was HD DVD. The mission of the "one format" group was to avoid exactly what has happened. So, as far as I know HD DVD was first. Sony came up with Blu-ray later.
HD DVD supports MANDATORY managed copy, so as far as we can tell now it'll more WIndows Vista friendly, allowing you to copy disks. Not that this will help you if the HD-A1 doesn't have a RJ45 connector, I don't think it does.
But HD DVD will also support iHD which is more Win Vista interactivity.
Surprize - Microsoft supports HD DVD and will probably put one on the Xbox360 as an addon sometime next year if not for Christmas this year.
HD DVD will have one layer of encryption specified by the AACS, the flag based thingamajig (actual names elude my overtaxed grey matter at this particular moment).
Blu-ray on the other hand will apparently have two added layers of encryption. This should really be irrelevant to you and me who will use the devices for honest endeavors, so it's not a big issue.
However, you can see the picture that emerges ... HD DVD had a clear "customer-centric" vision from the start. Blu-ray had a kiss the studios arse vision by adding their own encryption and not adding managed copy to their repetroir of features. Only after HP threatened to jump over to the HD DVD side did Blu-ray (Sony) relent and make Managed Copy (not mandatory managed copy) an optional feature up to the discression of the studio releasing the movie.
So, as an average consumer I personally like HD DVD. But as I've said from the begining the first format upon which which I can watch my favorite trilogy of trilogies - Star Wars, LOTR and Terminator I'm waiting on HD disks.