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Warner is supposedly encoding Batman Begins to take advantage of Blu-ray, so, if true, that would be the disc to make all comparison's from when released. Until then, I guess you guys wwill have to agree to disagree.  

Let me take one more whack at this horse, then I'm off for some quality time with a good movie.

If you think comparing one of the earlier HD DVDs released (10/10/2006) to a brand new encode almost a year and a half later is a fair comparison, then I don't know what to say.

My prediction is that is will look slightly better than the existing HD DVD.  But that will be more a factor of advances in the codecs and experience using them than disc size.  In my opinion of course.

The extra space would be most percievable on high motion or highly detailed scenes (action, explosions, moving water). It certainly would not be night and day like SD to HD for everything.

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You cannot do that with HD DVD and Blu-ray.

What movie did you do this comparison with?

As I explained on the previous page, you mis-understand the hype.

There's a reason that the Transformers HD DVD did not have lossless audio on the disc...and it wasn't capacity, it was bandwidth.

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Quoting nolesrule:

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There's a reason that the Transformers HD DVD did not have lossless audio on the disc...and it wasn't capacity, it was bandwidth.

That disc was also voted Best Audio of any 2007 HD disc (HD DVD or Blu-ray).

Is this the same awards where the Blu-ray of 300 won over the HD DVD version of 300 for high-def title of the year? The HD DVD had more extras? That makes me question the credibility of these awards.

I do agree that it takes really good ears (and possibly really good equipment) to tell the difference between a high bitrate lossy audio track and a lossless audio track, and I don't think my ears are that good, and I'm sure my speakers aren't. But I'm also of the opinion that if you can have lossless, you should.

I'm the same way with my music. Since all my CDs are being retired to a storage closet in favor of digital music, I do all my rips in lossless so I still get CD quality. I only use lossy codecs for noisy environments, like in the car or on a portable music player with headphones.

The basic motto is "if you can do it, you should," which is why I favored Blu-ray even when both formats were vaporware. Blu-ray "can" do more...but it's up to the content providers to make it happen.

As for Transformers, some people, including studio insiders on other boards, reported the original Blu-ray authoring was for BD50 with high bit rate AVC and lossless PCM, and that they will be using that to press the discs. But I'll believe it when I see it.