Toshiba's survey: HD DVD will win - Blu-ray Association survey: Blu-ray will win

Does anyone really believe surveys anymore? Cell phone companies use them all the time to 'prove' that they have the best coverage/sound quality/less dropped calls/customer service. The issue that many people have is that these surveys were commissioned by a certain company and somehow those results always work nicely for that company. (or it could be we never see the ones that don't turn out) The two surveys done by Toshiba and Blu-ray Association prove the point even more. Both surveys came out favoring who paid for the survey but PC Mag got down and dirty with the stats to find out why. Each survey left out certain details. The HD DVD one failed to mention the high capacity of Blu-ray discs and the Blu-ray one didn't mention that HD DVD currently has 124 titles available via Amazon.com, instead of Blu-ray's 74. It's funny how that works.

Here it is then. We are not getting paid by ether of them and don't care what you say.

HD DVD or Blu-ray?

NOTE: please just comment with the format name...not with any explanation. We don't want to taint the results. Thanks!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 9:06AM]

hddvd

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 9:11AM]

HD DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 9:20AM]

HD DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 9:26AM]

Blu-ray

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 9:30AM]

HD-DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 9:31AM]

HD-DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 9:43AM]

HD-DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 9:49AM]

HD-DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 9:50AM]

Blu-ray

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 9:50AM]

Blu-Ray

[nickmgray Posted Jul 24th 2006 9:50AM]

Blu-Ray

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 10:02AM]

Betamax

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 10:03AM]

HD-DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 10:06AM]

Blu-Ray

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 10:11AM]

HD DVD

[cckrobinson Posted Jul 24th 2006 10:14AM]

HD DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 10:18AM]

HD DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 10:31AM]

Blu-ray

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 10:32AM]

HD-DVD FOR MANY REASONS

[AR Posted Jul 24th 2006 10:32AM]

HD DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 10:36AM]

HD-DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 10:41AM]

HD-DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 10:47AM]

HD-DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 10:52AM]

HD-DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 10:55AM]

Blu-ray

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 11:00AM]

HD-DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 11:23AM]

HD-DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 11:27AM]

HD-DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 11:33AM]

HD DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 11:34AM]

HD DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 11:44AM]

HD DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 11:45AM]

HD-DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 12:09PM]

HD DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 12:15PM]

HD DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 12:32PM]

HD DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 1:02PM]

Blu_Rape

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 1:02PM]

HD DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 1:08PM]

HD DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 1:11PM]

HD-DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 1:24PM]

HD DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 2:02PM]

Blu-ray

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 2:27PM]

Blu-ray

future not now.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 2:30PM]

HD DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 2:33PM]

HD-DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 2:34PM]

HD DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 2:50PM]

HD DVD

[akadennis Posted Jul 24th 2006 3:09PM]

HD DVD

[mtkupp Posted Jul 24th 2006 3:49PM]

HD DVD

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 5:41PM]

Could someone please explain the benefit of HD DVD over Blu-ray? It seems to me like capacity would be the great decider on this one, but it looks like people (commentors on this post) tend to lean towards HD DVD when Blu-ray clearly can hold more data. What is the benefit to HD DVD?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2006 5:59PM]

To 43 (yes its off topic im sorry)

Right now HD DVD looks better because most (all?) Blu-Rays use MPEG-2 on a 1-layer disc. That means compression. HD DVD uses a better codec for their capacity. Samsung also says there is a fixable problem with the unit. Blu-ray is the winner in the future.