Posted by Mr. X on 01/12/06 06:50

"Norman Peelman" <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
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> A Blue-Ray disk is a storage medium and has nothing to do with mpg2/mpg4
> etc. except for the following fact:
>
> ---
> HDTV contains much more info (read data) and thus consumes much more disk
> storage than regular TV/DVD. In order to support direct content
> recording/playback, Blue-Ray supports 36Mbps data transfer rate to be able
> to accomodate doing both at the same time.
> ---
>
> That is a paraphrase from http://www.blu-ray.com/info
>
> ... any video format can be used on a blu-ray disk, not just mpg2/mpg4


The movies they have made right now are all MPEG2.

Sony is very unlikely to want to break compatibility with new encodeing on
new movies.

MPEG2 which is litterally half as effective as MPEG4 for comprable quality.

Single 27G BluRay discs not only cost more to make than a dual layer HD-DVD
(30G) but they perform like a 13G HD-DVD would on prerecorded titles.


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