Blu-Ray is Clearly Winning (and I’m Glad)

It looks like Sony’s Blu-Ray technology is a good ways ahead of HD-DVD in replacing standard DVD as the new standard and I couldn’t be happier. I could care less which of these companies gets licensing fees for the next decade or so. If we’re going to go to a new, higher-capacity disk standard, then I want the biggest upgrade in capacity for the pain of going through a transition. A single layer Blu-Ray disc will hold 25 GB of data while a single layer HD-DVD disc holds 15 GB. (Double those numbers for dual layer discs) If we’re all going to buy new equipment, I’ll take the higher capacity solution for my trouble.