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Old 04-20-2005, 07:42 PM   #2
john_1958 john_1958 is offline
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Mar 2005
Default old players

someone wrote
"But think about it - choosing a predetermined set of codecs as "standard" will ALWAYS have a downside. ?"a lot of DVD players, especially older models, will never have support for anything more than the basic MPEG-2 codec. For that reason it's impossible to adopt WMV9 or VC-1 or MPEG-4 as a new DVD standard for releasing movies by the movie publishers - they just can't abandon such a large portion of the customers with incompatible players.

I don't think so people will always want state of the art technology therefore its not stupid to abandon old players
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