Comparing The HD DVD Player And The Blu-Ray Player

By Ferdinand Eusebio

There are essentially three types of DVD players available in the market: the omnipresent standard DVD player, the High-Definition (HD) DVD player that is perhaps less recognized, and the Blu-Ray Disc player. When the format wars regarding "DVD versus Blu-Ray" began, the comparison was primarily between the HD DVD player and Blu-Ray player. Both are high-capacity players that use their own proprietary HD format, which caused both technologies to be pitted against each other for market supremacy. This format war in actual fact ended in February of 2008 when Toshiba had declared that it would close down the manufacturing of HD DVD player.