aaronspink said:The Reality is that both formats are half baked and insufficient. I honestly expect both formats to fail as a mass market format. It comes far too close to the introduction of the DVD format and within 5-10 year, 100GB+ disks techniques will be a reality, allowing true high definition content.
Aaron Spink
speaking for myself inc.
A Four-Layered Blue-Ray disc can already exceed 100 Gbs. And yes, they are a reality, though they won't be introduced for quite a while. Combined with the large storage space on a single layer and with the ability to go multi-layers, Blue-Ray will be around for a long time. It's not limited like the DVD format was. And yes it will be excepted if it beats out HD-DVD. DVD's today are already starting to meet their limits, just look at the Lord of the Rings movie. New Line could have cut their manufactoring costs by a fourth by using one Blue-Ray disc instead of 4 DVD's. Granted Lord of the Rings is a rare case, but considering we're moving into the High-Definition era, the storage space of Blue-Ray discs will be sorely needed.