Posted by Super Spinner on 07/07/06 01:36

asj wrote:
> Blu-ray uses Java and supports Linux.
>
> I have been canvassing HD-DVD and have seen unsold players and movie
> titles here in NJ. Since Toshiba is widely-held to be subsidizing the
> cost of HDDVD, you gotta wonder how long a company like Toshiba (which
> is much smaller than the manufacturers who are shipping Blu-ray like
> Samsung, Sony, Panasonic, etc) can last ;-)
>

Too bad BR sucks compared to HD-DVD according to the early adopters at
avsforum.com. Mainly due to Sony's insistence on MPEG2 on BD25 disks
(Sony can't get BD50s to be cost-effectively mass-producible, and
insists on using their antiquated MPEG2 codec rather than VC1 (or AVC
H.264).

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