|  | Posted by Norman Peelman on 01/13/06 02:10 
"Mr. X" <fake@spam.net> wrote in messagenews:d_mxf.6196$ZA5.6051@fed1read05...
 > "Norman Peelman" <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
 > news:g48wf.2662$2i3.484@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
 > >  A Blue-Ray disk is a storage medium and has nothing to do with
 mpg2/mpg4
 > > etc. except for the following fact:
 > >
 > > ---
 > > HDTV contains much more info (read data) and thus consumes much more
 disk
 > > storage than regular TV/DVD.  In order to support direct content
 > > recording/playback, Blue-Ray supports 36Mbps data transfer rate to be
 able
 > > to accomodate doing both at the same time.
 > > ---
 > >
 > >  That is a paraphrase from http://www.blu-ray.com/info
 > >
 > > ... any video format can be used on a blu-ray disk, not just mpg2/mpg4
 >
 >
 > The movies they have made right now are all MPEG2.
 >
 > Sony is very unlikely to want to break compatibility with new encodeing on
 > new movies.
 >
 
 ....not a Blue-Ray medium(or HD-DVD) issue,
 
 
 > MPEG2 which is litterally half as effective as MPEG4 for comprable
 quality.
 >
 
 ....not a Blu-ray medium(or HD-DVD) issue,
 
 
 > Single 27G BluRay discs not only cost more to make than a dual layer
 HD-DVD
 > (30G) but they perform like a 13G HD-DVD would on prerecorded titles.
 >
 >
 
 ....incorrect, Blu-Ray medium is limited only by the ability of the current
 hardware (read below).
 
 
 Actually, HD-DVD format seems to be pretty much locked into the 36Mbps
 data rate regardless of what's going on (read writing or reading) whereas
 Blu-Ray will support 72Mbps (2x) at the minimum, and is looking to support
 288Mbps (8x) or more.  Really they are talking about stand-alone
 player/recorder requirements when discussing supporting codecs.  Bottom line
 is this...
 
 1) if your Blu-Ray player supports viewing jpegs, gifs, etc.  then you can
 do it.
 2) if your Blu-Ray player supports .wmv files, then you can do it
 3) etc, etc.
 
 .... it'a all up to the player/recorders, not the Blu-Ray disc.
 
 Norm
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