Tuesday, October 17, 2006

HD-DVD - The Look and Sound of Perfect

Check out this marketing push by HD-DVD.
It's a good place to point people for their PR rhetoric of why to make the switch to HD formats. I think most of the selling points that HD-DVD mentions would also apply for Blu-Ray Technology as well.
I was surprised to read:
"HD DVD players also recognize both MPEG-4 AVC and VC-1 based on Microsofts Windows Media" How did they get every HD-DVD player/manufacturer to buy licensing of VC-1 when so few releases are going to be based on that codec? What about better(Not-to-mention cheaper) compression technology like .h264? Sounds like it could be some backdoor shenanigans by Microsoft. They seem to be calling the shots as to how much VC-1 costs, and has somehow got it to be a mandatory part of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray!
Check it out:
http://www.thelookandsoundofperfect.com/

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