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Nearly every bride has a professional photographer out for her wedding, but how much attention is paid to the wedding video? It's been my experience that a distant uncle or a grandfather usually just follows the wedding party around with the family camcorder, if the photographer allows it. That's fine for right now, of course. A standard digital camcorder will produce images that can be burned onto a disk and viewed on most DVD devices.

But what about HD-DVD? What about Blue Ray?

The wedding video is something the bride and groom will want to cherish for years to come. How embarrassing would it be to pull out that old DVD in five years and have all of your friends chuckling at the low resolution? Even now, vendors like Best Buy and Wal-Mart are stocking the new HD-DVD players, with the advent of Blue Ray just around the corner. What does this mean for brides and grooms getting married within the next year or so?

All this technology is in a transitional phase, making the decision something of a Catch 22: should brides and grooms go with standard resolution so they will have something to watch right now, or should they go with high resolution so they will have something to watch later? To me, the only reasonable answer is to find a videographer who can offer BOTH for the same price.

I'd be interested to hear what other people think. Is the resolution, or even the wedding video, that important? Do HD-DVD and Blue Ray stand a chance in a market already saturated with "the latest thing"? Any feedback would be very helpful.

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