Woah, Hot Fuzz HD-DVD >>>>>>>>> Any BD I have seen

[TVC15]

Um, I have to say I am kind of surprised here.  I just assumed that both "formats" were basically the same, with different storage, HD-DVD being worse off, but, uh, woah.

Hot Fuzz on HD-DVD is quite a bit of a better package than ANY Blu Ray I have seen. 

Right out of the way, image quality is about on par with Blu-Ray.  My PS3 is HDMI, my HD-DVD is component, so there is a slight quality hit there, but that would be corrected if I had an HDMI 360, which will happen soon.

But aside from that, HD-DVD is pretty clearly the winner in basically every other category.  It's got much nicer menus, and a FUCKTON more special features (over ~18 categories of special features, just under 40 total, severl of them of considerable length).  The menus are impressive all around.  When you press the menu button, they pop up 360 dashboard style, rather than going to a DVDish menu, which is how I've seen it done on every BD so far.  The UI is also pretty good.  I can't really hold that against the BD format, but more of Sony's piss poor design of the PS3 DVD/BD interface.

So it's in the details here, but HD-DVD has kinda surprised me.  I thought people were exaggerating the special features difference, but my mind is blown here.

[demi]

I think you mean Hot Fuzz >>>>>>>>>>>

[Mupepe]

tvc, i told you this!  i told you!

[TVC15]

there's a special feature of Marsha from Spaced sucking off Dylan Moran in a porta john.

[Ichirou]

As I understand, the differences are because Blu-Ray's java isn't finished yet, so BD's lack a lot of the special features that use java...

[TVC15]

That doesn't even begin to make sense.  Most, if not all of the special features are videos.  BD just has something wrong with it.

[Mr. Gundam]

Every Blu-ray I've played has the same pop up menu option.

[Ichirou]

I'm not defending the format.  Just saying that's the "official" reason they're giving for missing features on BDs compared to HD-DVD.

[Smooth Groove]

Dick, I told you that most Hd-dvds looked nicer because they used better codecs.  Hurry up and get a HDMI 360.  The picture is so much better w/HDMI.  A lot of the crispness that the PS3 seems to have over the 360, is simply due to the PS3's HDMI.  The 360's picture is equally as crisp once HDMI is used.  Actually the 360 offers a even better picture for 1080P TVs since it can upscale all games to 1080P which the PS3 can't do. 

[Ichirou]

Stop talking crispy, it's making me hungry.

[TVC15]

I'm still riding out my 360 until it dies!  The longer I wait, the better the deal!

[Smooth Groove]

Sell it to a friend that wants a 360.  That's what I did and I only had to pay $50 more for a HDMI 360.  Also, the elite is probably a better choice if you're going to use optical audio.  If you get a non-elite,  you'll have to buy an optical port at a ripoff price of $50. 

The smartest thing to do, although it's too late now, would have been to purchase the original 360 at Costco.  I know someone that returned his 1 yr old 360 for a new one w/HDMI. 

[TVC15]

Nah, I would feel bad selling it to someone when I know it is close to dyin'

[Smooth Groove]

How do you know your 360 is dying?  I didn't feel bad about selling my 360 to a friend since it was <a yr old and still had full warranty.

[TVC15]

It has red ringed on me, but it worked again an hour later.  It's also shown other signs of degeneration.  It sometimes gets especially loud, or gets disc read errors.

Nothing super common, but all not good signs. 

[Smooth Groove]

Sounds like it's dying.  What are you going to do with the replacement from warranty since you're already going to buy another one? 

[TVC15]

I'm not even thinking about that until it happens.  Even if it happened tomorrow, it sounds like the service is so terrible that I'd be waiting for a month even if I wanted a replacement.  Someone I know just waited two weeks for a fucking coffin.

[MrAngryFace]

if you dont have a service plan just let it run down. got 3 years anyway, whats the rush lol.

[MCD]

HDi bitches

and remember, shit is region free.