New H.265 twice as efficient as H.264!

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Canada

Joe Kane says...

I, as well as I think many long term members here, for example PeterTHX, stopped paying serious attention to Joe’s recommendations a long time ago, especially since he gave this interview to the French - http://www.cinenow.co.uk/videos/320-...hd-dvd-formats back in ’06. As we can never figure out his true agenda, whether it be some sort of undisclosed direct or indirect financial incentive with an ally, or self promotion for further speaking engagements, or promoting public awareness of his current or potentially upcoming products by giving ‘video guru’ interviews, etc.

If you listen to the whole interview linked to in the first paragraph above, or at least starting from about the 5½ min. mark, where the discussion moves to HD-DVD and Blu-ray and he begins with “Blu-ray is all about greed”, he is basically promoting HD-DVD over Blu-ray because HD-DVD was using the VC-1 codec and the initial Blu-rays were mpeg2 encodes, conveniently failing also to tell listeners during that talk show of the superiority of Blu-ray to HD-DVD in terms of bandwidth and storage capacity.

But what is upsetting is that when Joe gave that interview, everyone (Insiders) in the industry knew that Sony was actively investigating using advanced codecs and although not formally announced, the intention was to move to h.264 in time once it had been fully baked. This was no secret among those in the industry nor even some regular readers of this forum (especially the moderators), nor members of other forums where mpeg2 vs. D5 master demos had been publically presented - http://www.avforums.com/threads/just...eklund.413203/ .

So, one is left with only two possible conclusions….either Joe was so far out of the loop as to what was really going on behind-the-scenes in the industry, which then suggests his lack of connections and real influence among the power brokers, or he was exactly aware that Blu-ray was eventually moving toward using h.264 and he was not disclosing the entire scenario of what consumers should look forward to with high definition Blu-ray physical media in the months and years to come.

As to ‘Color My World’, the colorimetry of BT.2020 is based upon the work done in BT.2246-1
http://www.itu.int/pub/R-REP-BT.2246 , the consensus of which was derived from multiple meetings and input documents among a group of international experts many of whom volunteered their time and effort…not “somebody”.

If professional mastering (color critical) monitors capable of 100% BT.2020 coverage are built in the near future (which Richard suggests is in-the-works on the last page) and a scenario such as this outlined for consumer displays doesn’t pan out - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...ed#post9560685 for UHD then it won’t be because of any inherent deficiency/issue with BT.2020 but rather purely financial on the part of the content creators.

Sheesh, I never thought I’d find myself defending 2020 over DCI P3…but there you go.