Posted by Clem Dye on 06/15/70 11:52

Mark Fraser (News) wrote:
> In article <PrCdnY_DKeKxXjLZnZ2dnUVZ8s6dnZ2d@bt.com>,
> porky <news@dvdlibrary.co.uk> wrote:
>> HD-DVD has better video codec than current bluray players... Sony will
>> not be seen to use VC1 as with HD-DVD because VC1 is the development of
>> Microsoft who are seen by Sony as deadly rival who are trying to break
>
> Since when has anything Microsoft been superior to anything else?
>
>> into home entertainment market that Sony have held for so long.. So for
>> now Bluray is stuck with inferior mpeg2 video for now unless Sony come up
>> with a similar codec to VC1 of their own. So what is use of 30Gb blu-ray
>> stuck in mpeg 2?
>
> I thought Bluray was going to use one of the MPEG4 codecs.
>
My understanding too. Initial BR diss are going to use MGEP2 though,
from what I can make out.


Clem

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