Posted by Andy Richardson on 01/07/06 18:37

rich wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:44:07 -0800, Mr. X wrote:
>
>
>>"video-game dude" <videogamedude@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:1136512415.752409.219450@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>>http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v635/77bluetsunami77/cessn04Red.jpg
>>>
>>>*Fully Software-Decoded BD Player Driven by Cell Processor
>>>(Sony-IBM-Toshiba CPU)
>>>*High Quality Image Processing Driven by RSX Graphics Processor (Nvidia
>>>GPU)
>>>*1080p/60 12bit Color HDMI Output
>>>*32bit Floating Point Color Processing *32bit Floating Point Audio
>>>Processing
>>
>>This is only possible because Blu-Ray is only MPEG2 not MPEG4.
>
>
> No, blu-ray also supports mpeg4 and MS's codec:
>

Mpeg4 is in the Blu Ray specs but they are using only mpeg2 until some
issues can be worked out with the implementation of mpeg4. Supposedly,
a firmware update will be issued in the future that will address these
issues, but I would be wary of the first batch of Blu Ray players. The
issues are not technical so much as they are about getting all the
members of the Blu Ray consortium to agree on how they want to implement
mpeg4.

Andy

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