Blu Ray Vs Hd

There is a new hi-definition battle going on for your movie buying dollar, and while Toshiba's HD-DVD and Sony's Blu-ray are busy duking it out, many industry guru's are recommending to hold off on re-buying your DVD collection until the dust settles.

Whether you consider yourself tech-savvy or not, chances are you tend to collect the movies you love and I'm guessing you don't collect them on laserdiscs or VHS tapes. That's because since DVD's hit the market in 1997 nothing has been able to compete for nearly 10 years. With so many hi-definition televisions making their way into homes across America people are starting to realize the resolution on their "Hi-Def" football games is far superior to that of their favorite DVD.

The two current options for Hi-definition Movies (Blu-Ray and HD-DVD) require expensive new players and equally expensive discs. So if you must have your Hi-Def movies, which should you choose? Tech-savvy Veronica Belmont from Cnettv.com went to the Consumer Electronics Show 2007 to decide which format is better. She concluded that the formats were too similar with no clear winner and finished her report by saying: "Don't forget downloadable HD content, that's my choice". [http://www.cnettv.com/9710-1_53-25773.html].

It seems that those who are aware of all the latest technology foresee some other format replacing the way we buy our movies. So what will the format be for the next 10 years? Samsung has already announced high Capacity flash memory that rivals the capacity of both HD-DVD and Blu-ray [http://ce.seekingalpha.com/article/7982]. Microsoft has been developing Media Player 9 HD format (1080p) strictly for your PC. Imagine a High-Definition movie on a card no bigger than a postage stamp? Want to take it to a friend's house? Just load it to your thumb drive and go.

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