HD DVD format dead?

[snowtrooper1966]

Try this...

www.mammothmountain.com

[Bulldoggie]

Try this...

www.mammothmountain.com

More like Heavenly! cool.

[psychos2]

The reason there is more stuff on a Bluray disc is capacity. A regular dvd has 4.7GB (single layer)8.5GB (dual layer).Approximately 3 hours of record time on a dual layer disc. An HD disc has 15GB (single layer)30GB (dual layer)51GB
(prototype triple layer).approximately 13 hours dvd quality or HD quality 5.1 or 3.3 hours depending on encoding method. Bluray has 25GB (single layer)50GB (dual layer)100GB (prototype quad layer),approximately 23 hours dvd quality or 8.5 or 5.6 hours, depending on encoding method. So the reason Bluray has more stuff on it is because they can. If the HD format had more space they would put more stuff on it. Both HD and Bluray have the same audio specs and the same resolution so there is no difference there. So it really has to do with the capacity, bigger is better. And also on Bluray the extras are in the same format as the movie ,not in lower dvd quality like on the HD dvd, due to lack of space. shawn

[Bulldoggie]

I can't wait for these to come down in price.

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10867

I have the matching DL DVD.
The best "superdrive" I've used.

[snowtrooper1966]

Greetings, psychos2!
I do not subscribe to that "bigger is better" theory.
I just want a quality master recording with perhaps some commentary, maybe a few "making of" featurettes.
I definately do not want my player to be surfing the web looking for links of the film I am watching, and letting me know while I am veiwing said film.
As far as I know, neither format has come close to filling up a disk yet. The greater Blu capacity is more of a needless gimmick, at this point, IMHO.
It seems like Blu is adding "pow, wiz, bang" features because they are trying to justify something. In fact, as I stated earlier, most of these little used featuers seem to only make the disks harder for players to handle, and ruining the simple enjoyment of (gasp) enjoying a film!
Best,
James
snowtrooper1966

[snowtrooper1966]

Bulldoggie,
If you had that LaCie, where would you be burning stuff from? Archived material from satalite HD feed? That stuff is full of compression atrifacts.
It seems that the only quality signal you could record would be a local HD broadcast captured from an HD antennae. Unless you would have it hooked up to a HTPC......
I do have a home A/V component DVD burner. I remember looking at those when they first came out, close to 10k, if memory serves....
I bought it to burn series episodes I have captured, but as I mentioned, the quality of the sat feed is pretty badly compressed. Coupled with the fact that most of the stuff winds up for sale, I find myself recording less and less. The majority of my digital recording is on my Dishnetwork HD DVR. I like to record "chunks" of series, and watch a few episodes in a sitting.
For me, there is pride of ownership in professionally mastered and packaged DVD and HD media material.
Best,
James
snowtrooper1966

[Bulldoggie]

HD home movies.
DVD box sets.
Soon to be common HD Ripping software?
iTunes back-up to one disc.

I'll wait till blank media is <$5.
By then the burner will be <$300.

Some features are worth the premium price.
But if the source is lower quality, DVD is plenty good.
A lot of my favorite movies are pre-digital.
Twilight Zone would not look better in Blu