Posted by Derek Janssen on 12/30/07 21:40

T.B. wrote:

> Appropriately named "dork" babbled:
>
>> Another thing, Warner Brothers masters ALL it's new HD stuff in HD-DVD
>> first, then copies it to Blu ray.
>> So if your watching a Blu ..Beta Ray WB movie, it's just a copy of an
>> HD-DVD.
>
>
> That's got to be the dumbest thing I've read in this newsgroup, and believe
> me, a lot of stupid comments have been posted here over the years.

Well, let's wipe away such foolishness with some data-crunching
evidence, then, shan't we?: :)

Given that VC-1 is the said codec used for HD-DVD releases, and Blu-ray
champions MPEG-4 AVC, we at least have references to check which title
uses which--

So, as we can see from a sampling of titles from the dedicated-Blu
trilogy of Disney, Fox, and Sony, the listed "Video Codecs" for mastering:
Disney:
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=306
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=507
Fox:
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=560
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=601
Sony:
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=546
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=349

And the video codecs for Warner?--Ha! No difference at all:
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=545
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=571
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=375

(Ho, ho, that's rich! "Warner using one crappy HD codec because they're
too cheap-bastard to master two separate releases, and singlehandedly
representing the biggest setback about keeping a dual-format war
going"...As if! Yuk yuk! What a maroon!) ;)

Derek Janssen
ejanss1@verizon.net

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