DVD is increasingly showing a strain in providing HD content.

[WilliamWatts]

MikeB said:

WilliamWatts said:
No, lossless. Lossy compression of textures has a much higher ratio.

Sounds strange, why not do this compression in DX9 as well if it's lossless?

Because its not in spec. Textures are just xxx by xxx bitmaps. Very easy to compress those.