Thread: Blu-ray vs. HD Digital Video Disc The Format warfares

Digital Video Discs are the recent standard for data storage, and perhaps more importantly the publishing format standard as well. The question is however, how much longer will they be sufficient? A much anticipated battle, or ‘format war’ if you will, is in progress similar to that seen in the 1980’s between VHS and Betamax. This time around the same companies have fallen into the same camps and war is ensuing between Blu-ray and HD DVD technology.


Knowing actual little about either, I absitively to investigate these formats and what follows is hopefully an aloof presentation of facts. At this time it is adamantine to say if there is a baton in this architecture race, or if there will anytime be one, with articles still not accessible in the retail market, and from what was apparent at contempo CES 2006 expo, manufacturers are still alive adamantine on aboriginal bearing players, which will accordingly be replaced aloof a few months afterwards with added aesthetic articles already they ability the masses.




Hopefully afterwards account this commodity you will be bigger abreast about the two technologies, and why not, aces your own favorite, or alarm the industry for a abundant bare aggregation (think of dual-format DVD±RW drives nowadays).


Blu-ray Disc (BD) is one of the next-generation optical disc formats currently actuality proposed. It is advised for high-definition video and high-density abstracts storage. The technology was developed by a accumulation of companies alive beneath the name Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA). The capital adherent of this technology is Sony. As you can acquaint by now, the capital adversary to Blu-ray technology is HD DVD, which is backed chiefly by Toshiba.


HD DVD has been accustomed as the alone architecture of accustomed next-generation technology by the DVD Forum, which is a accumulation of 230 companies who advance and ascertain DVD formats. Members of this appointment accommodate every big name in music, movies and the computer industries, while Toshiba is the alignment advancement the forum. The vote to name HD DVD as the almsman of DVD technology was 8 to 6, and abounding of the companies aural the appointment are abetment Blu-ray technology.