DVD will be retire very soon like Beta, VHS and HD-DVD already retired.
Blu-ray Disc:
Laser Wavelength: 405 nm (Blue-Violet Laser)
Storage Capacity: 25 GB per layer / 50 GB both layer
Video Resolution: 1920x1080
HD-DVD:
Laser Wavelength: 405 nm (Blue-Violet Laser)
Storage Capacity: 15 GB per layer / 30 GB both layer
Video Resolution: 1920x1080
DVD:
Laser Wavelength: 650 nm (Red Laser)
Storage Capacity: 4.7 GB per layer / 8.5 GB both layer
Video Resolution: 720x480 (NTSC) or 720x576 (PAL)
P.S. - NTSC mean in USA and Canada or PAL mean in Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
I can prove you ... Blu-ray disc is better than HD-DVD or DVD, why? I show you a picture
Predator (Left is DVD and Right is Blu-ray Disc)
The Terminator 2 (Top is Blu-ray Disc and Bottom is HD-DVD)
I do understand how your feeling, sound like you not want waste all your own DVD Movies but I do have tons of VHS and DVD, but I never throw them away and I always saved them as my memory and collection, but I thinking Blu-ray disc is worth it than DVD, I did went go to Future Shop (look like Best Buy in the USA) anyway I did bought Sony Blu-ray Disc & DVD Player in One System.
Last ... you talk about Closed Caption, they are too old and Now everywhere is Subtitle, sorry, we can't stop them and This is Business War. If you love Closed Caption then you should save your own VCR Player or DVD Player if you do good care.
