The pr0n industry choose HD-DVD, so thats gonna "win". Because frankly almost everyone watches pr0n sometime, and HD is just amazing with its quality, hence pr0n + HD = luxury pr0n. ppl wont be able to resist! *lol*



Also that HD-DVD uses a much more modern and frankly just simply BETTER compression technique than Bluray, the HD-DVD has better quality, but smaller size. But however you look at it a full length movie in superb HD resolution will ALWAYS fit on an HD-DVD, the only thing that the Bluray can bring is more deleted scenes and *****. And frankly, i for one care more about the actual movie than watching some more 400x300 crappy deleted scene cutout..

The only reason porn helped VHS was because it was basically the only easy way you could get porn videos back then. Now you can get porn on VHS, DVD, and on the internet. All easier and cheaper to get than on HD-DVD. I'm not saying having porn won't help HD-DVD, but it won't help it nearly enough as it helped VHS. And it definetly doesn't decide a winner... yet...



Also, blu-ray is capable of the same compression as blu-ray, and it does use the same compression in some cases. The blu-ray assosiation lets movie makers chose between using the VC-1 compression HD-DVD uses (it cost's them more money to use it because of licencing) or just mpeg-4 or mepg-2. These are one of the reasons why blu-ray has more support than HD-DVD. And the point of having more space is have HD deleted scenes and extras (not 400x 300)

Hmm, is everybody sure that there will be no p0rn on BluRay?

nobody is really interested in watching the ***** of men ejaculating in 1920x1080

well and after that we can throw away all our CD, DVDs and Blu Rays away

well traditional media is already being overtaken in the broadcast industry with the vast majority of high def stations using panasonic's p2 cards (4-16gb arrays of 4 flash memory units in a pcmcia card). flash memory will replace optical media in the home soon. holographic discs will be around for backup, mass storage, etc.



then again what happens in the broadcast industry oftens matters little to the home entertainment industry seeing how up until now we all used beta lol. so who knows...

The day we see movies streaming (stored online, no physical drive needed) and/or downloaded onto flash drives as mainstream is so far off, I will likely be dead before it happens (if it ever does).



You see, I have conducted much research into what people want as far as a medium and more than 70% (on average) want a physical medium to watch/play games on and the rest were mixed between streaming and downloading it all to one physical device drive.



Sure, this will change, but the thing is, by the time 1TB of flash memory is affordable (under 100) we will have had breakthroughs in HDD space and discs such as the holographic storing 300TB's of information or more, for less. So what would be the point? None, besides portability of mass storage the size of your thumb. And don't forget as quality goes up, so will required disk space.



The keyword here is portable, and a dumb thing for Mr. Gates to be saying. People don't want less quality and more portability, otherwise who would give a ***** about DVD? Its all about quality. Thats as *****ing dumb as Lucas saying that all the big movies in the near future will be indie, and big budget will die out.



But without big budget, how are you going to pull off the expensive special effects? You can't, the whole idea of technology expanding creativity in films would have gone down the drain. The two biggest loony bins in the world (so far), lucas and gates.



What people want is a high quality format to display on their 50 inch HiRes screens (if and when they get one), and not something that was compressed for a portable media player, that looks like absolute ***** (worse than VHS) when put on a 50inch HiRes screen. As well as an easy way to take their purchase, and shrink it down to fit on a portable. Not pay for both separately, for the same *****ing price each.

In the end its all about the corporate telling us what we want, but then it stings them in the ass when we dont buy into it. Then again there are the millions of dip*****s who support iTunes and its *****ed up DRM (any DRM for that matter) by buying it because its curently the best thing out there. Which is not true (one of the only smart things gates ever said, "buy the CD, DRM sucks"), there are better ways .... get off your lazy asses and buy the dvd/cd in store, or online for christ sake!



This way you can do whatever you want with it, you purchased it, just don't be a fucwad by duplicating and selling it. Its of much higher quality and with all the free ware easy to use dumbass versions of software out there either built into an OS or available elsewhere, there is no reason to purchase music and movies online. it is just ridiculous.

porn did chose hd dvd since bluray decide to not have porn on their blurays. A huge advantage for hd dvd. This format war might end sooner than we thought it might. Who knows no one can predict what will happen.

Neither will win. HVDs will win. HVD = Holographic Versatile Disk. Multiple Terrabytes on one disk.