Since 1997, DVD has been the #1 top selling format for home entertainment, crushing VHS with in a five year time frame. But technology is forever changing and it's only a matter of time before DVD's go the way of VHS. With two new formats (High Definition-DVD and Blu-ray) on the horizon, which one will win the race? Both formats use blue laser technology, which has a shorter wavelength than red (DVD), allowing it to read the smaller digital data "spots" packed a lot more densely onto a standard-size disc. In other words, they hold a lot more memory than your standard DVD's. "The comparison chart shows that HD-DVD and Blu-ray disks will be pretty similar. Both should be able to fit a high definition movie onto one side of one disk, and both HD-DVD and Blu-ray players will play old DVD movies."(Boutin, Paul) it's still too early to call the race with both technologies about a year away, but my money is on Blu-ray.
HD-DVD is more user friendly in terms of its name, with the title......
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