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Originally Posted by Martin3
That's not true at all.
Both are compressed, you have any fucking idea how big uncompressed video would be? 
HD-DVD uses VC1 for it's video codec. Blueray is primarily using MPEG2. Even on a 50gig disc, MPEG2 doesn't look anywhere near as good as HD-DVD on a 30gig disc.
Both have the ability to use both VC1 and MPEG2(aswell as AVC for blueray), but since Sony owns the patent to MPEG2, they choose to continue to use an out dated codec. |
"Initial versions of Sony's Blu-ray Disc-authoring software only included support for MPEG-2 video, so the initial Blu-ray Discs were forced to use MPEG-2 rather than the newer codecs, VC-1 and H.264. An upgrade was subsequently released supporting the newer compression methods so the second wave of Blu-ray Disc titles were able to make use of this."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc
Also, H.264 is mpeg4 variant and it's really nice
Also, If anyone is interested in reading about the HD-DVD format, I am adding the wiki hd-dvd link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_DVD