You're talking rubbish, you're reposting pure speculation regarding region coding for HD DVD, they have zero interest in having region coding in their format as it'll prevent sales and i seriously doubt they'll fold to pressure from film companies as they're doing pretty well on their own.
As for the 51Gb disc, it has been accepted by the DVD Forum but it'll never be released until it is fully backward compatible... this is where HD has the biggest advantage, the same company that controls the standards for DVD controls the standards for HD-DVD, as such they actually have standards (which is something BR loosely has a grasp on) all players have to have certain connections in place - i.e. an internet connection. BR may have a higher capacity disc but they don't use bpth formats use the same codecs to convert the films, BR has extra capacity to run the add on features, but they take up huge amounts of space on the disc and being the new BD+ Java it isn't even compatible with many first gen players.
BR is being towed along by massive subsidies from Sony, i.e. free disc copying which is rumoured to be more than twice the cost of copying a HD disc, added cost of enforcing region coding... Sony want it to win, and the sole reason it is leading is due to the PS3, remove the sales of the unit from the classification of sales and the discs bought by people as a tester and then look at the true figures.
Sure some studios are insisiting on being BR Exclusive due to the region coding in place, but if and when HD takes the lead it'd be churlish of any studio to reject the format and cost themselves sales - they'd have some great comments to have to make to their board on that one.
My prediction is that HD will win... but i'm happy to buy either and do to get the film i want. I've actually only just bought an HD DVD player, the Xbox add on as it was £99 and i get 5 free films with.... i could sell the player and it'd have cost me about £10 for the films!!!
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You're talking rubbish, you're reposting pure speculation regarding region coding for HD DVD, they have zero interest in having region coding in their format as it'll prevent sales and i seriously doubt they'll fold to pressure from film companies as they're doing pretty well on their own.
As for the 51Gb disc, it has been accepted by the DVD Forum but it'll never be released until it is fully backward compatible... this is where HD has the biggest advantage, the same company that controls the standards for DVD controls the standards for HD-DVD, as such they actually have standards (which is something BR loosely has a grasp on) all players have to have certain connections in place - i.e. an internet connection. BR may have a higher capacity disc but they don't use bpth formats use the same codecs to convert the films, BR has extra capacity to run the add on features, but they take up huge amounts of space on the disc and being the new BD+ Java it isn't even compatible with many first gen players.
BR is being towed along by massive subsidies from Sony, i.e. free disc copying which is rumoured to be more than twice the cost of copying a HD disc, added cost of enforcing region coding... Sony want it to win, and the sole reason it is leading is due to the PS3, remove the sales of the unit from the classification of sales and the discs bought by people as a tester and then look at the true figures.
Sure some studios are insisiting on being BR Exclusive due to the region coding in place, but if and when HD takes the lead it'd be churlish of any studio to reject the format and cost themselves sales - they'd have some great comments to have to make to their board on that one.
My prediction is that HD will win... but i'm happy to buy either and do to get the film i want. I've actually only just bought an HD DVD player, the Xbox add on as it was £99 and i get 5 free films with.... i could sell the player and it'd have cost me about £10 for the films!!!