Should WMVHD become the default format for Digital Copy?

[prerich]

Bluray is King and there is no agrument there at all...case closed ! However - I pulled out my old "Stormchasers" WMVHD and it was just beautiful and sounds great.
Here's (IMHO) a good question - Should WMVHD become the default format for digital copy? I believe it would help push people further toward BD's (I believe DC's only come with BD's right)? That would spur adoption and possibly put an end to pirating. You would have a superior BD and a Digital copy that's better than DVD but not as good as BD. I may be wrong in my thinking and assuptions, but personally I think it would be great.

(I don't think of WMVHD as a competing format - never was. It could also push people to BD when they see how much better a WMVHD is than a DVD and they also find out that BD is better than WMVHD). What say you - yea or nay. Either way I still take Bluray

[thecroshow]

in a word, no.

what's wrong with the dual format now? absolutely nothing, give the consumer a choice, nothing wrong with that.

by going WMVHD you isolate the most popular portable video players in the market, ipods, would be a stupid move.

can we lock this thread now?

[GGX]

Originally Posted by thecroshow

can we lock this thread now?

Thats pretty egotistical.

[jw]

Originally Posted by GGX

Thats pretty egotistical.

Isnt that the truth, nothing like a one sided conversation

[WriteSimply]

WMVHD is what VC-1 was. VC-1 was built upon it. It has limitations that VC-1 addressed just to be ratified by the SMPTE.

The purpose of digital copy is to make the content fit into mobile devices. For now, mobile devices does not even have 720p resolution. So to make WMHD the default serves no point as the screens are too small. Even the XEL-1, Sony's first OLED monitor, is 540p in actual resolution at 11". You might as well get a laptop with a 20" 1080p screen and a BD drive for the price of that thing.

For your information, UMD movies are already encoded in H.264 aka AVC, one of three codecs that BD uses - AVC, VC-1 and MPEG-2.


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[prerich]

Originally Posted by WriteSimply

WMVHD is what VC-1 was. VC-1 was built upon it. It has limitations that VC-1 addressed just to be ratified by the SMPTE.

The purpose of digital copy is to make the content fit into mobile devices. For now, mobile devices does not even have 720p resolution. So to make WMHD the default serves no point as the screens are too small. Even the XEL-1, Sony's first OLED monitor, is 540p in actual resolution at 11". You might as well get a laptop with a 20" 1080p screen and a BD drive for the price of that thing.

For your information, UMD movies are already encoded in H.264 aka AVC, one of three codecs that BD uses - AVC, VC-1 and MPEG-2.


fuad

Now that's great! I'm an audio buff - video is my weak side - I didn't know that UMD's are encoded in H.264 --- Thanks for the info! So there we have it Now I feel like G.I. Joe (now I know - and knowing is half the battle) how many people are old enough to remember that line from the cartoon !!! Excellent. So nothing needs to be changed at all Now I will close the post, Thanks again my friend