Posted by Jordan on 09/26/83 11:52

porky 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 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?

You might want to mention why MPEG2 is a problem... the spec for HDTV
broadcast quality is 25mbps, you would think that Blu-Ray wouldn't have
a problem with this since the low end for the Blu-Ray (and HD-DVD) spec
is 36mbps.

The problem is that MPEG2 maxxes out at 19mbps. This is why all the
early Blu-Ray movies look like crap. They simply can't push the HDTV
resolution fast enough to give a decent picture quality.

- Jordan

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