Why Disney Chooses Blu-ray Over HD DVD
By William on Sunday, August 12th, 2007 at 2:59 PM PST In Gamer Life
It’s rare these days to find anyone choosing HD DVD over Blu-ray. It does happen, but not often. Apparently Disney has been taking a strong favor for the Blu-ray format as well. In an interview with the Herald Sun in Australia, Disney’s Gordon Ho shed some light on the subject:
“Blu-ray provides the best delivery vehicle for the best high-definition pictures, so that’s just one thing. The vision is first and foremost. You know, in the US there’s now a Sunrise channel – you watch a sunrise. And it’s popular. You know why? Because it’s in high-definition, people love it. “
Check out the article to find out more about Gordon Ho’s thoughts on Blu-ray and HD DVD.
Via Herald Sun
So larger disk = better quality? What happens when HD comes out with the triple layer HD DVD with 51 GB capacity? Will Disney switch? Did he mention that it’s quite possible that some of the first Blu-Ray players WON’T play some movies because they can’t be upgraded? Opps. HD DVD REQUIRES an Ethernet connection so as long as you can get that, you can upgrade.
Bah, he mentions “Better picture” three or four times. Side to side, when they use the same compression algorithm, how is Blu-Ray better?
Blu-ray already have a 200GB prototype. 51GB hd-dvd is already out of date.
And blu-ray players can be updated like all media players always have been, using burned discs with firmware patches. The requirement of an ethernet connection has more to do with remote content and HDi than updating.
And bigger size do allow better picture and audio.
Sony has trouble now with 50GB discs. What makes you think they are suddenly going to start spitting out 200GB discs?
Tell me, how is that “Pick your own feature” working on the Blu-Ray copy of 300? It’s got more space on the disc, why isn’t it included?
@ deezel, idk, maybe you could tell me how many ppl bought the hddvd version compared to the blu ray?
Deezul said: “Sony has trouble now with 50GB discs”
Evidence please.
@ norbit, good point, as i heard MGS4 will be on 50 gig discs
They had some issues with the 50gb discs over a year ago but nothing at all now like Deezul seems to think.
BTW Deezel seems unaware that when the triple layer 51gb HD-DVD disc is launched AFAIK it won’t work on any current HD-DVD players. That’s if the 51gb disc is ever released of course. They announced a 45gb one ages ago and that never appeared.
Deezel also seems to be unaware that BluRay far more industry support than HD-DVD and has the technical potential to give a better picture based on 2 facts. It has a higher capacity and a far higher bit rate transfer speed.
More support plus larger capacity does not mean BETTER. That’s what I’m arguing, as that’s what the Disney executive said. More storage does not mean better. More storage means just that, MORE storage. As both use the same codecs, the movie will use the same amount of storage regardless. Sure, Blu-Ray has the capacity for more extras, but as demonstrated by 300, the HD DVD has more extras than Blu-Ray.
Not once did I argue that HD DVD was better or would win. I am arguing that saying Blu-Ray is better because of more storage is a BS argument. It would be one thing if the movies that came out on Blu-Ray WHEN COMPARED TO HD-DVD had many more times the amount of extras. But that isn’t happening yet.
Many of the PS3 games that are using larger storage is because the drive speed of the Blu-Ray in the PS3 is slower than the DVD drive in the 360. Oblivion, the same game that fit on one DVD for the 360, would run slow on the PS3 if it was on one DVD. Proof?: http://kotaku.com/gaming/ps3/oblivions-double-data-blu+ray-kludge-229496.php
You just shot yourself in the foot there because when Oblivion was released 3 months after that article it actually turned out to run a damn sight better on the PS3 than the 360 meaning although the drive speed might be slower than a DVD it makes no difference.
BTW You seem to get all your info from old and completely out of date sources. You are linking to 8 month old Kotaku pages and talking about problems with 50gb BluRay disks that were sorted out last year.
“More support plus larger capacity does not mean BETTER.”
Yes it does. In the same way that less support and lower capacity = worse.
You are right Norbit. The drive speed didn’t make a difference and Oblivion plays noticeably better on the PS3. It’s not a huge difference, but it’s very noticeable in load times and the annoying lag you get when you are running across the world too fast.