Mr_Sukebe
Prominent Member
I've seen all the arguments for and against each system, and frankly the biggest difference appears to mainly be cost at the present time. Assuming both end up using VC1, there's no massive reported picture quality advantages to either system, and chances are that BD won't make full use of it's extra storage capability.
So, I thought I'd have a look on amazon.co.uk at what I can actually buy.
Oh dear, doesn't look great, though it's better than it was.
More importantly, I couldn't help but think that there was nothing on HD that I haven't already got on SD and actually want.
Vice versa, there were quite a number of BD disks that were unavailable on HD, which would be enough to tip me towards BD.
Just please remember that I have no axe to grind here. I don't own either system yet and have never owned a video console in my life. So I have no active reason for promoting either.
More to the point, I see that the Samsung BD player is now not much more expensive than the bigger Tosh european HD unit, so the price difference has nearly evaporated.
Hmmm, maybe I will be looking more closely at BD shortly...
So, I thought I'd have a look on amazon.co.uk at what I can actually buy.
Oh dear, doesn't look great, though it's better than it was.
More importantly, I couldn't help but think that there was nothing on HD that I haven't already got on SD and actually want.
Vice versa, there were quite a number of BD disks that were unavailable on HD, which would be enough to tip me towards BD.
Just please remember that I have no axe to grind here. I don't own either system yet and have never owned a video console in my life. So I have no active reason for promoting either.
More to the point, I see that the Samsung BD player is now not much more expensive than the bigger Tosh european HD unit, so the price difference has nearly evaporated.
Hmmm, maybe I will be looking more closely at BD shortly...