Sony switching to VC-1?

[JTK]

Looks like Sony is going to be giving VC-1 a whirl if this article is accurate:

http://www.dvdfile.com/index.php?opt...=5683&Itemid=5

Specifically:

You should also be made aware that Sony is switching to VC-1 video compression. The first Sony Blu-ray Discs that came to market were encoded with MPEG-2, the same CODEC that’s been used for years for DVD and terrestrial HD broadcasting. Prone to less graceful and more visible failure modes, the older CODEC mated with single-layer Blu-ray Discs disappointed. Increased Blu-ray Disc capacity and the switch to the higher performance video CODEC should yield a better presentation and far more generous supplements.

Good article, in general.


So much for the supposition though that you "have to encode to HD-DVD first to get VC-1 on Blu-ray" which the zealots were proposing, which was a ludicrous proposition to begin with, like so many other things they've written and said.

So many lies.


Just yet another nail in the coffin of HD-DVD if this ends up coming true.

Microsoft is going to "win" no matter what, by getting their codec royalty fees, including from their arch rival, so I think that's the beginning of the end right there.