Blu-ray vs HD-DVD… Game Over.
Format wars… who needs them?
Not I. I have an xbox360 – but should I get a HD-DVD drive for it?
I’m sure once one format reaches perceived critical mass then the support for the other will drop. I’m going to be a little irresponsible as I’m not fully aware of the technical deficiencies/advantages of the one format over the other.. but I like the box on the blu-ray disc more than the HD-DVD – and as it seems to be the way the format war is going I’m going to lend my voice to the blu-ray camp.
It’s not that I’m at all informed on the issue – it’s that I believe it’s best to get the format out of the door as fast as possible and make it a dominant format. We can then progress.
Please join me in supporting blu-ray to end the format war before anyone gets hurt 
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It won’t matter, both will be dead quicker than you can say “fibre optic cable”.
It does seem however that in the current minute and a half which has just passed, Blu Ray does have the lead because it does indeed have a nice blue box and plenty of people idiotic enough to buy PS3s. The major studios are lending it their support. HD-DVD drives are a fraction of the price yet still people are buying Blu Rays for the nice blue boxes. They’re probably all Americans.
There isn’t much difference between Blu-ray and HD-DVD, they both use similar HD video encoding and blue-laser technology.
The main difference is how they encrypt the content. I think that Blu-ray has a few more layers of encryption than HD-DVD.
Either way both methods will end up being circumvented, and until them I’m steering well clear.
Ciaran – is that hex code (that circulated around the blogosphere about 5 months ago) related to circumventing the HD-DVD and blu-ray encryption?