Both HD-DVD and Blu-ray suck. These technologies are completely useless and serve no purpose for the consumer. Now, I am not saying that HD sucks. I myself own a 46" HDTV, and it is awesome. Over-the-air HD broadcast looks stunning, and I whole-heartedly support movies in HD format. But the world does not need a new storage-disk/format for watching movies in HD.

An ordinary dual-layered DVD can store upto about 9GB of data. 9GB of space is more than enough to store an entire movie in HD format. It is a myth that one needs to invent a high-capacity disk in order to store HD movies. An entire HD movie will not fit in an ordinary DVD only if one uses an old and archaic codec like mpeg2. But Instead of mpeg2 if modern codecs like h264 are used, an entire movie in HD quality can easily fit in an ordinary DVD. The h264 codec has already been approved by both HD-DVD and Blu-ray camp and is in their list of mandatory codecs. So the million dollar question is, why do these folks want to create a new storage medium instead of using the old and trusted DVD? Two reasons: DRM and Money. The plan is to create new disk format infested with DRM and then suck consumers into paying more for these shiney new disks!

All the consumer really want is an ordinary DVD player with an HDMI/DVI/component-video output and ability to play movies encoded in h264 at HD bit-rate. But who cares about the consumers?