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Originally Posted by Trance  Does this mean, Microsoft now will have to offer BD drives instead HDDVD in near future. By the looks of it, they never made their mind up about which format would win despite beign sided with HDDVD as they designed 360 with optional drive capability. |
What does MS have to do with HD DVD or BD? If youre refering to XBox360 they specifically went with HD DVD simply becuase it was easy to install a driver and a hardware reader through USB for the XBox360, that and teh fact they wer counting on HD DVD "winning" the race as HD DVD production doesnt require too many changs in the printing plants compared to requirements for BD
Theoretically, the same can be done with BD (ie attache a BD player to an XBOX), but you wont see this happening simply because the licensing fees would be too high for them and it conflicts with the competitive nature of MS.
As for regions, i know that my BD movies are region free through the PS3. I dont understand why anyoen would buy a BD player at the relative same cost as a PS3 though. Whne running HDMI, there is absolutely NO DIFFERENCE between a standalone player or a PS3.
In addition, with HD DVD vs BD, if both discs are encoded to the same bitrates (which they usually are) and theyre both using the same codec (be it AVCHD or MPG2) they too should look identical if running through HDMI
There is no added benefit from either camp aside from storage capacity and bandwidth throughput