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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
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.
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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