Blu-ray data transfer rate

[wahey42]

I was looking at the official blu-ray site and it said that a 1x BD drive will transfer a 36Mbps but movies will transer at 1.5x speed, 54 Mbps. In comparison HD-DVD transfer rate is 36.55 Mbps. My question is will the higher data transfer rate result in a better picture on Blu-ray vs HD-DVD?

[arfi-gorgona-O]

Listen....what you looked its just the reference speed,what a blu-ray really is?Its basically a movie format isn't it?Well blu-ray in order to play movies needs 1,5 the reference speed.So basically,when you buy 2x a blu-ray you are going to get 3x the reference speed.Anything below 1.5x its useless you just cant see a blu-ray movie without it.When they say 2x or 4x the don't consider the reference speed anymore.

[XSpike]

you just made 0 sense to me then arfi :) oh well.

[wahey42]

My point was that movies in the blu-ray format will have a higher bit rate then the hd-dvd format. I thought it might have a better image quality just like superbit dvds and regular dvds and I was wondering if that might be the case.

[MiThRaZoR]

Parameters BD-ROM HD-DVD-ROM
Data transfer rate (1x) 36.0Mbps 36.55Mbps
Data transfer rate (movie application) 54.0Mbps (1.5x) 36.55Mbps

How come the DTR on the BD for the movie application is 1.5x and for DVD and HD-DVD is the same as 1x?

[xcon2]

just to give my two cents in the blu ray is better sony never made a bad format beta was better than vhs but vhs was cheaper but this time around the price wont be a big of a deal im believe they said HD was running around around the same price as blu ray

[MiThRaZoR]

Yeah, lots of stuff Sony makes is better than it's competitors but it has no support.