Well, for me at least, the advantage of Blu-ray's higher capacity and higher spec in general is that ideally, this format will be widely adopted, once/if one format ever wins.
So, just like you can burn 8.7 gig discs with your dual layer DVD burner, you would be able to burn 50 gig discs with you Blu-ray burner. Now this is already possible, but the price will continually drop in the coming years.
A stalemate this is not. A stalemate occurs when one player is not in check, but cannot legally move anywhere. The correct chess metaphor here is draw, probably one caused by the fifty move rule. I realize "stalemate" sounds more sophisticated than simply "draw," but it should not be used here, since usually one player has a major advantage in a stalemate, which is definitely not the case in this HD game.
The only reason most are just using 25-30GB is because those are made by companies that support both formats. They are just using one encode for both the Blu-Ray disc, and the HD-DVD disc, instead of using two seperate ones, like they should! They are not fully using the Blu-Ray potential, and this hurts the Blu-Ray supporters as they are paying for HD-DVD's mistakes. I see this 51GB HD-DVD disc as a good thing, even though I am a BD supporter, because now the companies have NO excuse for not using the full space and specs for both, as they are now both the same size.
@Scotty Luther The majority BD discs are not even using the same codec so they are hardly "using one encode" as you say. It's more like Blu Ray is paying for it's own mistakes.
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The average Blue Ray disc uses 25 -> 30 gigs, so who cares that it held 50 gigs...
I can almost guarantee the HD DVDs are going to use this full 51 gig capacity as well.
I meant to say "not going to use"; my B XD
Well, for me at least, the advantage of Blu-ray's higher capacity and higher spec in general is that ideally, this format will be widely adopted, once/if one format ever wins.
So, just like you can burn 8.7 gig discs with your dual layer DVD burner, you would be able to burn 50 gig discs with you Blu-ray burner. Now this is already possible, but the price will continually drop in the coming years.
A stalemate this is not. A stalemate occurs when one player is not in check, but cannot legally move anywhere. The correct chess metaphor here is draw, probably one caused by the fifty move rule. I realize "stalemate" sounds more sophisticated than simply "draw," but it should not be used here, since usually one player has a major advantage in a stalemate, which is definitely not the case in this HD game.
I'd use 51GB of DATA on a HDDVD disc, gotta back up my porn somehow...
Gotta love the idiots only thinking about how much space a single movie takes up on a single BD/HDDVD disc. We backup our own stuff on them too...
Besides, isn't ~50GB like, the end of the line for HDDVD whilst Bluray will eventually go all the way to ~200GB, if not at least ~100GB...
The only reason most are just using 25-30GB is because those are made by companies that support both formats. They are just using one encode for both the Blu-Ray disc, and the HD-DVD disc, instead of using two seperate ones, like they should! They are not fully using the Blu-Ray potential, and this hurts the Blu-Ray supporters as they are paying for HD-DVD's mistakes.
I see this 51GB HD-DVD disc as a good thing, even though I am a BD supporter, because now the companies have NO excuse for not using the full space and specs for both, as they are now both the same size.
@Scotty Luther
The majority BD discs are not even using the same codec so they are hardly "using one encode" as you say. It's more like Blu Ray is paying for it's own mistakes.
Most Blu-ray exclusive content comes close to 50GB, movies that are encoded for both formats are around 30GBs due to HD-DVD size limitations.
Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean used 75 GBs (one full 50GB disk and a 25GB disk for extra content they couldn't fit on the 50GB disk).