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The HD Wars

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The Gamerscore blog has a great justifictation discussing the rationale behind the Xbox 360 support for HD-DVD over Blu-ray and Microsoft's rationale behind backing HD-DVD rather than Blu-ray.  The commentary is a little bit snide, but I agree with the good points made:  Blu-ray is an expensive format that, even if technically superior, delivers no real value over HD-DVD.  Additionally, I feel that it is too early to push content in HD for gaming.  The DVD-9 format that is currently being used for the 360 is quick and cheap.  Developers and distributors are not under the burden that Sony will be putting them under with Blu-ray on the PS3.

Here is a good primer on the HD-DVD medium, there will be more to come on Blu-ray, but the technology is falling behind the quick start that HD-DVD has got.  Perhaps HD-DVD versus Blu-ray will be a similar theme to the XBOX 360 versus PS3, a big early lead for the technologies in Microsoft's camp.

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