Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD, you decide...

Industry Support:
Blu-ray
Apple; Dell Inc.; Hewlett Packard Company*; Hitachi, Ltd.; LG Electronics Inc.; Mitsubishi Electric Corporation; Panasonic (Matsushita Electric); Pioneer Corporation; Royal Philips Electronics; Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.; Sharp Corporation; Sony Corporation; TDK Corporation; Thomson; Twentieth Century Fox; and Walt Disney Pictures and Television, Warner Bros.*

HD-DVD
Toshiba, NEC*, Memory-Tech,
Microsoft, Intel, Sanyo*, HP*


Studio support:
Blu-ray
Lion’s Gate, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures and Television, (including Walt Disney Home Entertainment, Hollywood Pictures Home Video, Touchstone Home Entertainment, Miramax Home Entertainment, Dimension Home Video and Disney DVD) Warner Bros. (including New Line Cinema and HBO Video) have publicly announced their support for the Blu-ray Disc format.

HD-DVD
Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Studios (including New Line Cinema)


Game support:
Blu-ray
EA, Vivendi Universal Games and PlayStation 3 (PS3 will have an integrated Blu-ray Disc drive

HD-DVD
Microsoft (Xbox 360 will have a peripheral add-on drive)


Music support:
Blu-ray
Universal Music Group, Sony BMG

HD-DVD
None announced at this time


Planned formats:
Blu-ray
BD-ROM - read-only format for software, games and movie distribution.
BD-R – write-once recordable format for HDTV recording and PC data storage.
BD-RE - rewritable format for HDTV recording and PC data storage.
Hybrid Disc (single sided, triple layer disc. Can hold 25 GB Blu-ray content and 8.5 GB standard def content all on one side of a disc). 50 GB Blu-ray and 8.5 GB hybrid disc currently in the works.

HD-DVD
HD-DVD ROM – read only
HD-DVD-R – recordable
HD-DVD- Rewritable – recordable – format not complete
Hybrid Disc (two sided disc – must be flipped over -- 30 GB HD-DVD on one side, 8.5 GB standard def content on other side). Plus single-sided with 4.7GB and 15GB layers only


Storage capacity:
Blu-ray
Single-layer can hold 25GB
Dual-layer versions of the discs that can hold 50GB.
Capacity could be increased as additional layers are added – there have been announcements of 100 GB (4 layer) discs and Sony has been conducting laboratory work with a 200 GB disc.
This added capacity makes more customer features and benefits possible in the future, which shows that Blu-ray is the format for the long term.

HD-DVD
15 GB on a single sided, single layer disc
30 GB on a single sided, dual layer disc.
45 GB single sided, triple layer disc


Backward compatible with CD and DVD:
Blu-ray
YES

HD-DVD
YES

** The Blu-ray Disc Association has over 170 members
* Supporting both formats
Source: http://www.blu-raydisc.com