Blu sunbeam, hd dvd, standard?
Im not alone surrounded by this im sure.
Answers: Here is the straight story. There was a discussion on PBS roughly this same subject today. I will add I'm a Radio Shack Associate and hold 40 years experience in both radio and TV broadcasting. I've operate my own recording studio since 1966. Here is the skinny. Blu-Ray seem to be the winning format right in a minute. Quality-wise there is highly little difference. Blu-Ray is higher density so it can hold more information. Example, editor out-takes. The consumer a moment ago wants to know if they can capture the movie and could care smaller amount about the extra crap Blue-Ray can provide near the extra density of digital information. Beta and VHS? Same controversy. Warner has subscribed to Blu-Ray. That is a blow to HD-DVD but don't count them out. I one-sidedly think Blu-Ray will win but it is too soon to buy a system. Hold past its sell-by date until the market decide. There are systems on the market that can play both but they will cost you almost $1,200! Crutchfield is selling only Blue-Ray right presently and they are a major dealer. Even at that the prices are really high $400-600 plus. A standard DVD won't be out-of-date in the hard by future if you hold an up-converting player. That will convert a standard DVD to match the digital HDTV format but it won't be High Def. You can single get that next to HD-DVD or Blu-Ray and the Catch-22 comes into play. If you don't have a High Definition TV, you're out of the loop! Don't buy anything until the souk decides. Will your behind the times DVD collection be obsolete? Absolutely not. If you can play them near your existing system, do it and keep it. The High Def is simply that. New stuff with a unusual format depending on who wins. Current DVDs are analog and not digital close to HD.
The market have decided. Paramount is responding by switching to Blu-Ray disappearing only Universal for HD DVD. Paramount have a clause allowing this if Warner chose Blu-Ray. Deal done. Don't replace your DVDs with Blu-Ray though, they still look totally good on an HD set. Just achieve your new movies contained by BD. If you like keep on for the 2nd tier manufacturers to produce players at $150 by the wrapping up of 2008 I'm sure.
Err... current DVDs are digital, not analog. As a format they might be considered EDTV for Enhanced Definition Television (A DTV format with a resolution of 480P) even if it must be deinterlaced to catch there. And even at 480i it would be considered SDTV for Standard Definition Television (you guesed it, another DTV format ). Digital freshly means that it is record as a series of ones and zeroes. Just resembling CD, Blu-Ray, DTV.
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