What' s funny about what has been said about HD-DVD having the better picture quality, is the fact that back in the VHS vs BETA wars, beta had the better picture quality and look who came out on top.

" Some Sony formats (or ones that they heavily supported) that I can think of that didn' t exactly take the world by storm:

BETA
MiniDisc
Hi8
UMD
Memory Stick?
DVD+R?"

Shit, maybe BluRay will win through the sole basis of " law of averages" . I don' t care though, I' m not investing in either format until DVD9 dies.

I' m not investing in either format until DVD9 dies.

Good luck with that. They only stopped supporting VHS 3-4 years ago, if it' s anything like the last format war though, you' ll know waaay before DVD dies.

I' d rather download HD movies straight from the internet to my Hard-Drive. But not everyone has over a TB of disc space and a 10 mb internet connection. But then again by the time HD-DVD and Blue-Ray get popular it may be common.

ORIGINAL: Joe Redifer

Inferior formats (sometimes vastly inferior, technically speaking) that won:

VHS vs BETA - Winner = VHS
NES vs SMS - Winner = NES
PS2 vs GC and Xbox - Winner = PS2
Mac vs Windows (back when both were new) - Winner = Windows
Film vs Digital Cinema (this battle is currently waging) - Winner (will be) Digital Cinema

These products were after the same respective markets and often even priced similar.

The only one of those that is a format is the first, stfu moron.

The only one of those that is a format is the first

Perhaps you mean " Video format" . If you do, then I' d agree. Otherwise my point still stands that the superior technology doesn' t always win. In other words, technical superiority usually means NOTHING, unfortunately.

I' d rather download HD movies straight from the internet to my Hard-Drive.

Screw that. I' d rather have something I can play on any machine I want... something I can let a friend borrow, etc. Every single form of downloadable HD content I' ve seen sucks ass in comparison to BluRay and HD-DVD. The bitrate is well below even broadcast HDTV and that isn' t high enough. Sure it looks good, but it' s simply not good enough, even with the new codecs. However even if it were perfect, I' d still like to have it on some sort of physical media other than a hard drive. Something with no moving parts would be ideal, though.

I' d rather download HD movies straight from the internet to my Hard-Drive. But not everyone has over a TB of disc space and a 10 mb internet connection.

Pffft! Where do you live? Or rather when do you live?

Something with no moving parts would be ideal, though.

HD content on flash? keep dreaming

I didn' t say it had to be rewritable. Basically like a cartridge that stores a movie with 900,000 terabytes. Yeah, you laugh at me now, but in like 40 years you won' t (most likely because we will have all been replaced with robots).

PS - I have a 4GB Compact Flash Card. That' s more info than the Xbox Live HD movie downloads are I think.