Forum Overview :: Motherfucking News :: Re: Microsoft and Intel side with HD-DVD. Format war looming. :(

[quote name="Fussbett"][quote name="corax"]The main difference is capacity: a dual-layer Blu-Ray disc holds 50MB, while a DL HD-DVD only holds 30GB.[/quote] MS explains their Blu-Ray diss: <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050927_190208.html" target="ms">http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050927_190208.html</a> [quote]The surprise entry in Microsoft's and Intel's list of failures is disc storage capacity. On paper, Blu-ray appears to have the advantage. But the two companies looked beneath the paper: Capacity, said Ribas, "used to be the biggest advantage of Blu-ray, and we believed it. We thought, they'll get 50 GByte BD-ROM discs working, but it's not happening, and it's nowhere in sight. There are not even pilots. It's only in the lab that they are building these discs." With regard to demonstrated capacity, he told us, HD DVD-ROM actually leads BD-ROM by a score of 30 GByte to 25 GByte. [/quote] I imagine that after dual format DVD players appear in computers, eventually we'll see dual next-gen DVD players too (but not the Sony and Toshiba brands, obviously) making it a moot point for consumers, hopefully. I also see wedding bells for Lindsey Lohan and it looks like splitsville for Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher.[/quote]