Blu-Ray wins!

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

The link at HowStuffWorks is generally accurate, but there are several points that are wrong about Blu-ray:

Disadvantages:
More expensive to produce; hasn't been able to support more advanced video compression codecs such as MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC

This is incorrect. Blu-ray supports MPEG2, MPEG-4 AVC High Profile, and VC-1. The same codecs that HD DVD supports.

HD-DVD will work on today's standard DVD players, while a straight Blu-ray will not.

This is also very, very wrong. Neither HD DVD or Blu-ray discs will work in an old DVD player. Anybody that expects to play a plain-jane HD DVD disc in their Apex Wal-mart special is seriously dillusional. Both have dual-format specs where a HD DVD or Blu-ray layer can be pressed with a DVD layer onto a single disc. This is the only way that an old player can play this new discs.

 

[Hammerhead]

Bah! Dead-pixels!