Do you think Universal will recycle their VC-1 encodes to Blu-ray?

[theknub]

Originally Posted by hmurchison

We've seen a marked improvement in VC-1 and maybe even more improvement in AVC encodes in the last year alone.

of course, the formats are only a year old

I think it may be a bit presumptuous to expect VC-1 and AVC tools to be as mature as MPEG2

There are certainly anomalies popping into discs that could be due to the Master or to compression effects or whatever. I don't think that bitrate alone is the panacea that others make it out to be. The encoding tools will continue to improve drastically and the with new releases filmed on better digital cameras I expect that the lust for bitrate will always be there but the actual need will continue to diminish.

bitrate certainly is not the end all, be all. no one here said it was. however, the more bits available, the better the picture could be. personally, maximize it to the end of the world. i don't care which codec is used. it is very apparent that all three codecs can do great things. so disregard the codec x, y, and z arguments. i don't see however how you think that the need for higer bitrates diminish. as you said, tools continue to improve. this means that future encodes will look better and better with high bitrate transfers. no one here is willing to settle for "the look and sound of good enough" or "the look and sound of almost did it"

The funny thing is I see more people freaking out here about compression than the actual people editing and color grading this stuff.

really? do we have anyone here that is editing and color grading? i know a few people do on here, but i haven't heard them not freaking and striving for perfection.

I saw PotC playing at Circuit City on the new Sony and it did look good but I couldn't say it was better than the top shelf stuff on HD DVD. I expect movies produced in the last 5 years to look good.

The cool thing about movies that set the bar high is that eventually something comes along and pushes the bar higher.

what looks just as good as (or better than) pirates? it has been widely viewed on many sites as the best looking transfer to date.