Click to viewThe Blu - Ray vs. HD videodisc conflict seems as old as meter itself . Being tech savvy consumer , we ’ve try the two formatting are , to the end user , fairly very . Both are subject of equal resolution , equal healthy outturn and equal mass flopping .
But are tech specs the only way to judge videodisk ? Of course not . Technology is only stone’s throw one . How studios utilize the technology is equally as important . Besides , the gods give us eyes and ears for a reason .
For this week ’s topic , we dug through the entire archive from the DVD critics at High - Def Digest ( about 300 total reviews ) , averaging every paygrade they ’ve given yet to HD DVD and Blu - Ray titles . And you know what ?
Not all was equal .
Our preliminary average final result graph is above . It consecrate a slight sharpness to HD DVD in video and all excess disc content . But we ran these solution by a statistics - savvy friend who further analyse the data point in terms of actual statistical meaning ( through one - way ANOVA , stats geeks ) . She deemed the video recording results to be too skinny to call , but simultaneously deemed the other averages as noteworthy . What ’s all that think of ? We had to make a new graph .
Significant review average tell us that Blu - ray of light title were slightly , but emphatically superior in audio playback . HD DVD titles had far superscript standard def feature and fairly superior hi def characteristic .
But how could this be ? Spec sheets take the same audio codecs are confirm on Blu - electron beam and HD DVD . Why would one formatting sound better ? And why is HD videodisk kicking major Blu - re incentive content ass ? ISN’T IT ALL IDENTICAL EXCEPT FOR THE BOX COLOR ? ?
Nope .
So we expect High - Def Digest for their take on their own review article disparities .
Why Blu - re audio is winning :
This is chiefly due to strong support for high - firmness of purpose audio formats on the majority of Blu - ray releases , primarily DTS - HD and uncompressed PCM . HD DVD , by contrast , has seen far less significant reinforcement — few , if any , titles have been released on the format in either DTS - HD and PCM , with only a handful even skylark Dolby TrueHD .
That situation does n’t appear to be change , at least at the bit . The sole exclusive garter of HD DVD , Universal , has yet to publish a undivided title with Dolby TrueHD , let alone DTS - HD and/or PCM tracks . Paramount the same . And Warner championship with Dolby TrueHD are rather meager . Only the modest upstart the Weinstein Co. has really pushed Dolby TrueHD on their most recent … At the moment , it seems Blu - ray enjoys the bound in far-flung studio apartment support for high - solution audio recording .
displacement : the studios are using crappier audio compression on HD DVD .
Why HD videodisc bonus features are winning :
The discombobulation is gravel with interactive feature … the HD DVD group [ made ] support of the HDi authoring environment mandatory as part of their spec . That mean that all HD DVD player bearing the logo must to the full support the feature , which is why former HD DVD title were so flush with cutting - boundary feature . Right now , HD videodisk is leading in this attentiveness …
Blu - beam of light is still rush to catch up with its rival BD - Java shaft . Though living will finally come ,
and BD - J should deliver the same level of interactivity as HDi . But … until Blu - light beam reaches parity , it will fall behind behind HD DVD , if only in regards to full - on , cutting - edge interactivity .
interlingual rendition : Sony did n’t pop the question developer enough software documentation for their programming .
WINNER : Are you an audiophile or an extrasphile ?
And of course , the two issuing could be feeding off one another while playing to each data format ’s strengths . Blu - ray may easily lodge uncompressed audio frequency with its larger disc capacity , compensating for its lack of special feature article . Meanwhile , HD videodisk may exploit special feature of speech at the expense of audio ( where most people wo n’t even notice ) .
If only I were n’t too cynical to believe that anyone is looking out for the consumer here .
High - Def Digest[where I stole story / quotes from this workweek ]
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