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Posted by Super Spinner on 07/08/06 10:20
Tim Smith wrote:
> In article <8fOdnaLQ9sMoRjDZnZ2dnUVZ_sidnZ2d@comcast.com>, Joshua Zyber
> wrote:
> ><kari.li@rimlife.com> wrote in message
> >news:1152241310.800328.69750@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> >> Yawn. Old story. Toshiba=Dead.
> >
> > What bubble are you living in? Blu-ray's launch has been nothing short of
> > a disaster.
>
> There seems to be some confusion over both. At my local BestBuy, there are
> posters promoting HD-DVD at the end of each aisle of DVDs, but the racks
> next to those posters contain Blu-Ray discs, not HD-DVD discs.
>
> They have one Blu-Ray player hooked up to a nice LCD TV running a Blu-Ray
> demo disc. It looks nice, but it is not near any other set, so there is no
> chance of a side-by-side comparision with a regular DVD and a good player.
>
> Reviews of the initial movies for both are decidedly favoring HD-DVD. There
> doesn't seem to be any *technical* advantage to HD-DVD itself, but for some
> baffling reason, the transfers of a lot of the Blu-Ray movies are lousy.
The problem is that BDA is currently choosing the old MPEG2 codec and
forcing that on BD25 discs since BD50 discs aren't ready to be produced
in a cost-effective manner. MPEG2 on BD25 just doesn't get the job
done for high def. HD-DVD, on the other hand is using VC1 on HD-DVD30
disks. So currently, HD-DVD has 5 GB more space and is using a modern
codec in VC1.
BDA needs to get their act together and either use a modern codec or
get BD50s out the door. The latter is hard, the former is easy, but
there's politics involved. Sony doesn't want to abandon MPEG2 because
they get royalties on it. BD's raison detre is the prolonging of MPEG2
as a viable codec. BD was created in order to have 50GB discs, which
would be enough for MPEG2 usage, and Sony could say, "Don't use VC1 or
H.264! We can keep using MPEG2 because we got 50GB!!" But they don't
have 50GB right now (no telling when they will for high-volume titles),
and MPEG2 sucks on BD25 discs.
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