Universal says it is going to stick with HD DVD...
http://www.betanews.com/article/Univ...DVD/1199974983
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Originally Posted by Damien
Lord of the Rings in HD 
HBO, Nothing that would really benefit from HD IMO. HBO are all about the quality of direction and writing. Not so much about visual stuff |
The Sopranos & Rome look much better in HD.
It's not just fancy SFX laden stuff that benefits.
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Originally Posted by popper
OC all this picture quality also depends on the Codec used and indeed which Encoder , as i understand it , many HD DVD and BR masters are still using the old Mpeg2 Codec, and VC-1.
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AFAIK, virtually all HD DVDs use VC-1, some AVC.
Many early BDs used MPEG-2, & didn't look as good as HD DVDs. I think the majority do now use VC-1 though.