makingmusic476 said:
prlatino86 said:
I think people here are looking at the situation like its 2 enemies not willing to work with each other. Yall do know that Blu Ray movies are encoded with a MICROSOFT video encoding, right?
So funny thing people dont realize, Microsoft even makes money off of Blu Ray as well, off the licensing fee for using a Microsoft developed movie codec.
Everyone assumes automatically that Microsoft and Sony are arch enemies, but they are honestly not really competitors. The only thing they compete in really is the gaming industry. Thats it. Microsoft is primarily a software company, Sony primarily an consumer electronics company. Do you see Microsoft TVs out there? do you see Sony operating systems or Sony making their own "Microsoft Word"?
Not to mention, these businesses, the gaming divisions of these 2 companies, is small potatoes compared to the rest of the company. Wasnt like microsofts game division last quarter like 300 million, compared to 4.3 billion of the entire company? |
Very few are encoded via MS' VC-1. Most studios use AVC/Mpeg-4 for their Blu-Ray encodes. The only Blu-Ray backing studio that used VC-1 was Warner, because they recieved subsidies for backing HD DVD and using VC-1, and simply ported their HD DVD encodes over to Blu-Ray. |
Actually, you got tht mixed up. First off, the VC-1 is the Mpeg 4 derivative codec. AVC(or more known as the H.264) is based off the MPEG 2. that codec was used primarily at first by blu ray, but the picture quality isnt as great as the VC-1, which mainly HD DVD used. This is why early Blu Ray/ HD DVD comparisons usually had HD DVD winning out in picture quality because of the use of the VC-1 codec. Now they encode in VC-1 cuz they realized their mistakes by trying to use the mpeg 2/H.264 format and the complaints of the picture quality in comparisons.
