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Posted by Derek Janssen on 12/22/06 20:48
Joshua Zyber wrote:
> "Mac Cool" <Mac@2cool.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns98A1130F0C056MacCool@130.133.1.4...
>
>>>I found out that HD used a
>>>Microsoft-based codec, and the reason Apple originally supported Blu
>>>was that it used a Quicktime-compatible codec--
>>
>>They are both variations of MP4.
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> Only in the sense that both are evolutions of basic MPEG2.
>
> Microsoft's VC-1 is an independent codec based on their previous Windows
> Media 9, not a variation on MPEG4. AVC/H.264 is the MPEG4 codec.
And more directly to the earlier point:
What OTHER company does Steve Jobs happen to own?
(ie.,, "What other currently Blu-Ray obsessed major studio besides Sony?")
Although as long as Apple still makes official studio-licensed
movie-editing software, they still have to be corporately "neutral"
about supporting both HD formats, or else they lose Universal and
Dreamworks as customers--
Which is why Steve is more interested in a format winner OR ceasefire as
soon as possible than most.
Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net
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