Coming to America; VC-1 beats AVC

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Coming to America; VC-1 beats AVC

06-05-2007, 02:20 PM

Esox50

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Originally Posted by sltmag

What I find odd, is the fact that Paramount has never used VC-1 on Blu-ray. Do they have some aversion to the codec in general and feel it is necessary on HD-DVD, or did they feel that AVC produced a better image on a 25gb disc than VC-1?

It has been widely whispered for a long time that Sony is encoding the Paramount releases. When was the last time you saw Sony use VC-1?

This seems to make sense since Paramount used MPEG2 when Sony was using MPEG2, and when Sony started using AVC...magically Paramount started using AVC as well.

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