HD vs Bluray.....Your speculation..

[ElRazur]

The following companies supports Bluray

Apple
Dell
HP
Hitachi
LG
Mitsubishi Electric
Panasonic
Pioneer
Philips
Samsung
Sharp
Sony
TDK
Thomson
Twentieth Century Fox
Walt Disney
Warner Bros.

For more info see http://www.blu-raydisc.com/general_information/Section-14009/Index.html


While the following supports the HD DVD

ALMEDIO INC. Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
ALPINE ELECTRONICS, INC. Moser Baer India Ltd
BANDAI VISUAL CO., LTD. NEC Corporation
Broadcom Corporation NEC Electronics Corporation
CANON INC. NEC Fielding,Ltd.
CMC Magnetics Corporation NIHONVTR INC.
D&M Holdings Inc. ONKYO CORPORATION
Digital Theater Systems Paramount Home Entertainment
Diskware Co., Ltd. PONY CANYON INC.
EXPERT MAGNETICS Corp. PonyCanyon Enterprise INC.
FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD. Prodisc Technology Inc.
Fujitsu Limited. Protron Digital Inc.
FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD. PULSTEC INDUSTRIAL CO.,LTD
Hewlett-Packard Company Q-TEC,INC.
HIGH-DEF Technology GmbH RICOH COMPANY LTD.
Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. RITEK CORPORATION
Imation Corp SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
Intel Corporation TAIYO YUDEN CO.,LTD.
Interchannel, Ltd. TEAC CORPORATION
InterVideo, Inc. TEIJIN CHEMICALS LTD.
ITRI Toemi Media Solutions Limited
Justsystem Corporation TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
KADOKAWA HOLDINGS,INC. TOSHIBA CORPORATION
Kenwood Corporation TOSHIBA DIGITAL FRONTIERS INC.
kinyosha printing co.,ltd. TOSHIBA ENTERTAINMENT INC.
KITANO CO.,LTD. Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Corporation
Konica Minolta Opto, Inc. TOSHIBA-EMI　LIMITED
Lenovo Japan TRENDY Corporation
McRAY Corporation Ulead Systems, Inc.
Memory-Tech Corporation Unaxis Balzers Ltd.
Microsoft Corporation Universal Pictures
Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co., Ltd. / Verbatim Warner Home Video Inc.

more info here http://www.hddvdprg.com/about/member.html

Comparison btw both disc and the current dvd

The first Blu-ray discs can store 25GB of high-quality data, but will eventually be able to store 50GB.

Toshiba's HD DVD will hold 30GB.

By comparison, a standard single-layer DVD holds just under 5GB of data

Now that toshiba has launched it hd dvd player and sony looking to do the same soon, with all the list of companies in each member's list, how do you think the game will end? will this really be another VHS and Betamax war or we will have two good products in the market?..

 

[ElRazur]

is it possible for someone to bring out a machine that plays both ?

In theory, Yes - as it is about laser lights and reading the data off but i dont know if it would be possible in real life.

 

[ElRazur]

Yes but you asked why we anyone would need that much space.

I think someone once said Porno.....That's a good reason! Film extra with more behind the scene footage......i think the list is endless.