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Old 07-30-2020, 11:54 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by ilovejedd View Post
Nah, BD was better.

HD-DVD was 15 and 30 GB for single and dual layer respectively. Meanwhile BD was 25 and 50 GB allowing for higher quality/bitrate video and audio.

However, it was easier and cheaper for DVD manufacturers to convert to HD-DVD.
Higher capacity but it was wasted with MPEG2.
(And not essential with VC9 and H264/265/266)

And it was a *lot* more expensive to make, more fragile for years, and manufacturing capacity was lower. HD-DVD was cheaper to stamp out and any of the many DVD plants could make them.

A form of HDDVD carried on in China as CBHD for years after Toshiba threw in the towel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chin...efinition_Disc

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