what is the differrence between blue ray technology and HD DVD playeers?

[SUSHANTA KUMAR M]

Recently a news item has appeared that sony corporation will incorporate blue ray technology, which forced Toshiba to stop production of HD DVD players. Wallmart has only patronised bluray technology.

[River Euphrates]

They are just two different formats.

They aren't compatible, kind of like VHS and Beta back in the video tape days.

[jason g]

Sony has all ready incorporated blu ray technology. They developed it. Wal-Mart is supposedly supporting blu ray as are a number of other retailers. Blu ray and HD DVD are high definition technologies. The difference is that blu ray disc hold more information than hd discs. Supposedly they are harder to scratch. More companies support blu ray than HD DVD. Paramount and Universal currently support HD DVD for now.

[trishul_sol]

As said by the guy above me they are two different formats that arent compatible.
Sony, the pioneers in many electronic and optical storage technologies decided to go ahead with blu-ray. One of its rival companies (I dont know the name) continues with HD DVD.
May be Toshiba is in close ties with SONY so it is abandoning HD DVD Players

The biggest difference is in their storage capacities.

HD DVD can store about 20-25 GB on a single disc.
Blu-ray can store 25 on Single Layer & 50GB on Dual Layer

Hope that clears it all

[trishul_sol]

As said by the guy above me they are two different formats that arent compatible.
Sony, the pioneers in many electronic and optical storage technologies decided to go ahead with blu-ray. One of its rival companies (I dont know the name) continues with HD DVD.
May be Toshiba is in close ties with SONY so it is abandoning HD DVD Players

The biggest difference is in their storage capacities.

HD DVD can store about 20-25 GB on a single disc.
Blu-ray can store 25 on Single Layer & 50GB on Dual Layer

Hope that clears it all