Which will you buy? Blu-ray or HD-DVD?

BR will be the format of choice in the long run. Sony's market force will steamroller the HD competition.

Trust me, You heard it here first!!

It will be like Vhs/BetaMax all over again, and Sony will not lose this time.

Many people are just interested in watching a movie or tv show with a good plot. Others enjoy everything about movie making-the color, the sound, the special effects, the scenery etc, etc. That's what makes the difference. I am one of the latter. There are many movies I hated until I saw them in Blu-Ray. The second biggest expense in my life has never been a car but has always been my home theatre-cinematography has always been that important to me. Getting the same thing....! Story line, yes; the whole movie experience diffinitely no. Not until you have HD DVD or Blu Ray.

I will buy the format that is still around once the Compact Disc is in the same position as the cassette tape. I simply don't have the financial funding to participate in this limbo'd fight over 1s and 0s storage.

To be as honest as possible, I am going to stick with CD/DVD-Rs and HDDs. That's the safe bet! They should still be around for years to come because of their proven reliability...

Furthermore, if history tells the tale, a lower echelon company (such as Lite-On) will produce combination drives that will once again decrease the exclusivity that these companies attempt manipulating the public into believing; leading them to address this issue as if it is a sort of limited time offer...

BTW: Anything produced by Sony should be watched very closely, for many times it is not the best product that it can be... (such as the Playstation 2 which only beat out the X-Box because of great software support, not because of better quality; the Sega Dreamcast had better graphical resolution than the PS2, but had poor games. My point: On a processing, rendering, calculating scale (the foundation of digital transcoding) you might want to exercise caution with Sony...)

That's all for now...

Hope that helps!

if its like vhs vs beta max, then sony will lose again, vhs was cheaper and that is why it won-hd-dvd will be cheaper so it should win. I dont plan on buying either until the prices go down. There is no reason why to buy one now, unless you have a ton of money to waste. i would rather save the money and get another lcd tv.

being a playstation user i'll get blu-ray (when it costs less than 900$) the majority of film industries are going to blu-ray although some will make disks in both formats.

Blu-ray because it is a lot better, and it is made by Sony.

I'll be inclined to go with whichever technology seems to be LEAST-LADEN with DRM & copy protection.