Blu-Ray winning the HD format war?

[unixronin]

Looks like it may be the case.  If so, it'll be a good thing; Blu-Ray is technologically the better of the two competing formats, by a significant margin.  The main attraction of HD-DVD is a smaller initial capital outlay for the equipment to press the discs.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I'm still not convinced that Blu-Ray is significantly better than HD-DVD. Blu-Ray has more capacity, but that's the only significant difference I've seen so far.

Pre-recorded Blu-Ray discs have slightly more capacity than their HD-DVD equivalents. Recordable Blu-Ray media has MUCH higher capacity than equivalent HD-DVD media — as much as three times the capacity, if memory serves (the numbers I recall hearing are 45-50GB for recordable/rewritable Blu-Ray discs, as compared to 15-20GB for recordable/rewriteable HD-DVD). One of the major design considerations of HD-DVD was to require the least possible change in the mastering and production hardware.