As Ben has stated numerous times before, without side-to-side comparison between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD you'd be hard-pressed to notice many of the faults in the initial releases.
Deny it all you like, but Blu-ray has the potential to match (and even exceed) the PQ offered by HD-DVD. So if Blu-ray succeeds, it will be because they manage to show the full potential of the format (i.e. "what Blu-ray can offer") on dual-layer disks, and eventually far exceed the number of quality new releases.
Sure, there are problems NOW, but that's no reason to expect that they wont be fixed. Banging on about the observed difference in PQ in early releases is irrelevant considering that BOTH formats are a fair way from achieving much of a market penetration. When that day comes, I'm sure we'll be able to make new comparisons between HD-DVD and (dual-layer) Blu-ray on 2nd (or 3rd) generation hardware.... which would be a much more worthwhile comparison.
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Mark: Calm down
As Ben has stated numerous times before, without side-to-side comparison between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD you'd be hard-pressed to notice many of the faults in the initial releases.
Deny it all you like, but Blu-ray has the potential to match (and even exceed) the PQ offered by HD-DVD. So if Blu-ray succeeds, it will be because they manage to show the full potential of the format (i.e. "what Blu-ray can offer") on dual-layer disks, and eventually far exceed the number of quality new releases.
Sure, there are problems NOW, but that's no reason to expect that they wont be fixed. Banging on about the observed difference in PQ in early releases is irrelevant considering that BOTH formats are a fair way from achieving much of a market penetration. When that day comes, I'm sure we'll be able to make new comparisons between HD-DVD and (dual-layer) Blu-ray on 2nd (or 3rd) generation hardware.... which would be a much more worthwhile comparison.