Toshiba unveil their 51GB HD-DVD

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Erm, isn' t this getting a bit ridiculous now?!

Can older HD-DVD players read this format? If so, I can see it being great competition for the blu-ray, if not, it seems a bit late in the game.

lol, 51

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

well its good to know they went the extra mile to make blu-ray storage capacity look silly.


really, who in their rigth mind would buy a 50gb disc when others have 51gb, the war is over

This capacity is 1GB greater than rival Blu-ray Disc, which tops out at 50GB.

Wow, who let their kid run Toshiba for the day? I' m not complaining about more space, but c' mon... 51? Just for the sake of ticking Blu-Ray off? Glad it' s not just sony with the immature streak then.

One aspect that hasn' t really been discussed, (not here anyway) is not using HD-DVD/Blu-Ray as an HD-Media storage device. I' m waiting for HDDVD-RWs to hit the market, Now those interest me. The mass storage capabilities are scary, forget buying a $500 1 terabyte HDD set, pick up a stack of HDDVD-RW' s for 100 or whatever it' ll cost, & you' re good to go. Anybody else have similar ideas?

firs ever bluray burner, now that i want¡¡¡¡

You also want the new Sony brand STD' s.

I dont want to celebrate, I want to sell you hate.

ORIGINAL: immortaldanmx

You also want the new Sony brand STD' s.

whats an STD???

BTW that Blu Ray burner its not from SONY but HP.

whats an STD???

Ask somebody for one, let us know when you' ve found out.

Okay, so let' s see here. The latest HD-DVDs have a (however slightly) larger capacity. Strike one for Blu-Ray.

No biggie right? Let' s compare prices.

Even the cheapest BD-R player outstrips HD-DVD by hundreds of dollars in cost. You really think that' s going to change with re-writable drives?

If it had been Sony with that extra 1 gig you would have thrown a parade exclaiming how brilliant the folks at Sony Electronics are for their miracle breakthrough, and how it' s much more quality than HD-DVD because of it. Because basically you' re telling us that you' re shelling out anywhere from $250 to $500 dollars on a storage device because you like Sony. Did I mention that you' re getting less than HD-DVD?

I' d really like to get the HD-DVD add on for the Xbox360. But the problem is that I think there is only one movie for it that I want... Corpse Bride. Is there a list of what movies are currently available for each format?

The Last Samurai
Million Dollar Baby
The Phantom of the Opera
Serenity
Apollo 13
Doom: Unrated Extended Edition
GoodFellas
Swordfish
Assault on Precinct 13
Cinderella Man (2005),
Jarhead
Rumor Has It
Training Day
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Full Metal Jacket
Unforgiven
Blazing Saddles
The Bourne Supremacy
The Chronicles of Riddick: Unrated Director' s Cut
The Fugitive
U-571
Van Helsing
Constantine
Firewall
The Perfect Storm
A View From Space with Heavenly Music
16 Blocks
Happy Gilmore
The Rundown
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Syriana
Lethal Weapon
Guitarscape Planet
The Dukes of Hazzard
Enter The Dragon
Friday Night Lights
Pitch Black: Unrated Director' s Cut
ATL
Sahara
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sleepy Hollow
Four Brothers
We Were Soldiers
The Manchurian Candidate
U2 - Rattle & Hum
Æon Flux
The Italian Job
National Lampoon' s Animal House
Ray
Unleashed
The Bone Collector
Caddyshack
Good Night, and Good Luck.
The Interpreter
The Searchers
Spy Game
That' s the Way of the World
Red Dragon
Seabiscuit
Traffic
Backdraft
Space Cowboys
House of Wax
Dazed and Confused
End of Days
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Galaxina
Golgo 13
Land of the Dead
The Fast and the Furious
2 Fast 2 Furious
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Army of Darkness
Batman Begins
Tim Burton' s Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
The Polar Express
Waist Deep
12 Monkeys
The Interpreter
Out of Sight
Slither
Spartacus
John Carpenter' s The Thing
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible III
Under Siege
V For Vendetta
Nacho Libre
Reds
Accepted
Casablanca
Forbidden Planet
Peter Jackson' s King Kong
Mutiny on the Bounty
Waterworld
You, Me and Dupree
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Superman Returns
Superman II - The Richard Donner Cut
Dune
Smallville Season 5
Meet the Parents
An American Werewolf in London
The Mummy
The Ant Bully
Poseidon
The Architect
National Lampoon' s Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Story
Miami Vice
Chronos
World Trade Center
Field of Dreams
The Hulk
Derailed
Matador
Scary Movie 4
The Sopranos
Wolf Creek
Jet Li' s Fearless
Casino
The Scorpion King
Lady in the Water
Breakfast Club
Deer Hunter

Gasping for breath... Sorry y' all, but Joe asked.

(I' ll post Blu-Ray a little later)

Thanks for da list! Out of those, I can see myself most likely buying the following:

Apollo 13
U-571
Lethal Weapon (big maybe)
Batman Begins
Corpse Bride
King Kong (but ONLY because it comes with the drive, I' d never buy it on my own)

whats an STD???

I guess you never had to worry about it.


I want a HD-DVD add-on too but I want to upgrade my computer first. In March I want to get Windows Vista and a Dx10 card. I' ll probably wait and get the add-on next summer.

Out of that list, those are just the movies going to be released or are those the total HD-DVDs out? Anyways in that list I like:

Terminator 3
12 Monkeys
V for Vendetta
Batman Begins
Jarhead
The last Samurai (although I aready have it on DVD)
GoodFellas

lol 51Gb...

Blu-Ray + 1Gb, they' ll just have to add more layers as standard...
maybe 9 layers = 90 or so gig

- Phoenix|Slash
- A.K.A. HumpY...Gimme' A Leg

I bet BluRay cames out with a 52GB model.

I just read that Blu-ray without a doubt has won. I read it at two swedish news papers that has Las Vegas TT as their source. Not that they know anything but according to them seven out of eight studios are supporting Blu-ray. They say this was clear at CES. Can anyone confirm or call this BS?
But anyway, seven out of eight studios is alot.
They also say that the last battle, the Betamax VS VHS, wasn' t decided by technical superiority from any of the formats, but rather what the formats offered in terms of content.
There' s also a player from LG that supposedly reads both HD-DVD and Blu-ray

ORIGINAL: ginjirou

I just read that Blu-ray without a doubt has won. I read it at two swedish news papers that has Las Vegas TT as their source. Not that they know anything but according to them seven out of eight studios are supporting Blu-ray. They say this was clear at CES. Can anyone confirm or call this BS?
But anyway, seven out of eight studios is alot.
They also say that the last battle, the Betamax VS VHS, wasn' t decided by technical superiority from any of the formats, but rather what the formats offered in terms of content.
There' s also a player from LG that supposedly reads both HD-DVD and Blu-ray

They' re both retarded...

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I' ll probably stick with DVD for a couple of years more...

Format wars suck, and only hamper the progression from one dominating format to another.

As far as using HD RW discs, initial offerings will most likely only be single layer discs. That means only 25 gigs for Blu-gay, and 15 for HD-DVD. The discs will probably cost about $1 per gig, so it' ll be more expensive (at least initially) than the cost of hard drives (which I' ve seen as low as 25¢ per gig).

My HD-DVDs are:

Mission Impossible 1, 2, and 3
The Last Samurai
Batman Begins
The Chronicles of Riddick
Sleepy Hollow
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (gift)
King Kong (free)
The Ant Bully
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Superman II (The Donner Cut)
Superman Returns
Terminator 3
Army of Darkness

Soon to include:
Jet Li' s Fearless
The Corpse Bride

If you' ve got an HD tv and a 360, and don' t have the add-on, you should be shot. If you do start getting HD movies, make sure you get them from Amazon.com. If you buy 3 HD movies, you get 10% off all HD movies for a year! Besides the discount, their movies are usually at least a couple of dollars cheaper than I' ve found in the store, anyway.

I didn' t really pay attention to much ces stuff but im sure on ign they had that tdk or someone showed off the 200gb blu-ray disc, am i mistaken?

NiGHTS into Dreamcast

Out of that list, those are just the movies going to be released or are those the total HD-DVDs out? Anyways in that list I like:

Those are the ones that are out in stores now. Please don' t ask me to put up the ones that arent yet.

The list for Blu-Ray however is pretty big.