Whats the difference between HD and Blue Ray?
HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc actually have more in common than you’d expect. Both are similar blue-laser high-definition (HD) disc formats. Although incompatible with one another, both formats provide jaw-dropping video and audio quality, and also ‘upconvert’ your existing DVD collection to near-HD resolution. While there are differences between HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc, both offer significant improvements over DVD. To accommodate uncompressed digital audio and the visually stunning 1,080 lines of HD video, they feature huge storage capacities and fast transfer rates. The result is a home theatre experience like you’ve never had before. Compression techniques have also been improved upon in HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats. Standard DVDs use the tried and true MPEG-2 for encoding video. While the quality is perfectly fine, these new high definition formats are capable of utilizing the more efficient MPEG-4 (AVC and H.264 variations) or VC-1 to give better quality while using less space. For t
