When the home video format of choice changed from VHS to DVD, it was a rough change for consumers whose existing tape collection slowly became obsolete.The bottom line is that all your existing DVDs will play in your new Blu-ray player.
Superior resolution is a big part of what makes Blu-ray look great. This means you’ll see a more detailed image: more clearly defined strands of hair, wrinkles in clothing, and so on.The technical difference is that Blu-ray’s maximum resolution is 1,920×1,080 (1080p), while DVD is limited to 720×480 (480p). It has the highest-quality video format available today, If you have a good-performing HDTV it can even have better picture quality than movies at the local movie theater.
HD DVD discs can also store new super-high-resolution digital audio formats designed specifically to take advantage of the HD discs’ extra capacity (15GB to 30GB, compared to 4.7GB to 8.5GB for standard DVD).
When the HD DVD Recorder was released in 2006 it’s memory was limited. The first HD DVD Recorders that competed with Blu-Ray discs allowed the user to burn as much as 230 minutes of media in HD DVD.
Blu-Ray DVD’S are gaining popularity in the market today. Nothing compares to Blu-Ray technology except the HD DVD recorder.
So far in June of 2010 Blu-Ray has dominated the market of HD.Also the Blu-Ray competition the HD DVD R is expensive. You can pick up recordable media now for much less than when DVD Recorders and Blu-Ray were released to the public, The cost of the Maxell BD-RE DVD Rewritable 25 GB (1pc.) Disc is around $14 USD.
Even though HD DVD R sales are considerably less than Blu-Ray sales the manufacturers are still developing HD DVD Recorders especially since we the consumers are demanding more clarity when it comes to the media that we watch.
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