Bill Hunt's Two Cents posts about Paramount, Warner, etc.

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Originally Posted by WriteSimply

SCEE just announced PlayTV, a USB-device that will enable the PS3 to become a DVR. It uses the PS3s HDD to record; in itself it does not have a HDD.

You know why is this relevant to your point, Woo. For most of cable box systems, Java is the programming language. In Europe, AVC is the codec.

You guys may have missed this but do a Google News search on H.264 aka AVC.

Basically, AVC and Java have wide industry support. Microsoft is just trying to keep HDi and VC-1 alive. The fact that MS-lovers keep saying that they have no hatred towards Java is just lies. Add AVC to that list.


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You hit the nail on the head. This is not about the disc formats for MSFT but rather about royaties from codecs in the content creation industry. While both formats do include VC-1 in their standard, most HD DVD titles are VC-1 encoded while Blu-ray exclusive studios tend use AVC.

MSFT is afraid of losing marketshare to OS X and linux if most media goes towards AVC because AVC is not controlled by MSFT while VC-1 is only supported in windows authoring/editing tools.