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Sunshine for Blu-ray.

SCOTT PODMORE tracks down Disney's Gordon Ho in LA to get Info on Blu-ray choosing. It seems Gordon says that not alot of people know the full capabilities of a high-def TV, and when they talk about these Capabilities some people realize that Blu-ray is the way to go.

Also Gordon says Blu-ray has better specifications, than anything out there today, which is why its currently winning. And Disney will support Blu-ray cause of these better specifications.
We believe so and have put our support with Blu-ray at this time and that's because largely it has the better specifications. It can deliver a better picture because of the bit rate, beyond the fact that the disc has more capacity. So there's two different discs - Blu-ray and HD-DVD. Blu-ray, the dual layer, holds 50 gigabytes of data. The dual layer HD-DVD holds 30. So when you want the best picture, would you rather have 50 gigabytes of information or 30?

"So we found this meant Blu-ray had the room for the best picture and sound. The other thing it has is what we call a peak bit rate. What this is is how much data can you send over a pipe in a given second. Blu-ray can send 40Gb of information per second. HD-DVD can only do 29. So when you have an action scene and you have all this information on the screen - you've got fire, you've got people running about - you need to use so much bit rate. You have all this stuff happening and you suddenly need all this information to be sent through. Blu-ray has less limitations, so that's another benefit. It has space and it has space in the pipes.
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    Final Blade | August 13, 2007
    Some good stuff, Disney supporting Blu-ray is a good thing for Sony.
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    Silver Mirror | August 13, 2007
    With Disney and Blockbuster behind Blu-ray its hard to imagine them losing the format war
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    Existenz | August 13, 2007
    Not to mention the Playstation 3 has the player built in... Its like DVD without the PS2 i doubt its inception would have been so rapid.
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    tallteen86 | August 13, 2007
    Yeah, really, people can argue that it isn't won yet, but it has pretty much been won, HD-DVD just doesn't know it yet...

    I'm not saying this from a fanboy standpoint, but look, more and more places are supporting Blu-Ray over HD-DVD...
  • 0 thumbs!
    Zero and X | August 13, 2007
    Blu-ray is gonna win, HD-DVD can try, but it aint gonna win. HD-DVD does even come with the 360, its seperate add-on, but blu ray is built in teh PS3 which is a big reason why blu-ray is winning.

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