Next-Gen. DVD's

HD-DVD and Blu Ray have been competing for the costumers heart, but now the battle of the Next Generation DVD's is about to go onto the field of Home Entertainment. Blu-Ray with 25GB in sinlge layer and 50GB in Double layer while HD-DVD 'only' offers 45GB, to compare a CD offers 700MB, a DVD R+- around 4.7 GB and the DVD R-+DL around 9.4. The Blu-RAY is the Japanese (Sony) DVD while HD-DVD is considered to be the American DVD. The drives for bith DVD's are supposed to have backwards compatibility (at least until DVD, CD's might get pushed off...).
HD-DVD is announced to start soon while the Blu-Ray will not appear before the summer maybe even later (both are already running late as it is...).