Sony switching to VC-1?

[JTK]

Looks like Sony is going to be giving VC-1 a whirl if this article is accurate:

http://www.dvdfile.com/index.php?opt...=5683&Itemid=5

Specifically:

You should also be made aware that Sony is switching to VC-1 video compression. The first Sony Blu-ray Discs that came to market were encoded with MPEG-2, the same CODEC that’s been used for years for DVD and terrestrial HD broadcasting. Prone to less graceful and more visible failure modes, the older CODEC mated with single-layer Blu-ray Discs disappointed. Increased Blu-ray Disc capacity and the switch to the higher performance video CODEC should yield a better presentation and far more generous supplements.

Good article, in general.


So much for the supposition though that you "have to encode to HD-DVD first to get VC-1 on Blu-ray" which the zealots were proposing, which was a ludicrous proposition to begin with, like so many other things they've written and said.

So many lies.


Just yet another nail in the coffin of HD-DVD if this ends up coming true.

Microsoft is going to "win" no matter what, by getting their codec royalty fees, including from their arch rival, so I think that's the beginning of the end right there.

[Dave]

Great! I welcome this move

[ProvenFlipper]

I think Sony is doing this in part to make it true that you don't have to create a HD-DVD encode first before a BD encode. By taking this step out of the process, it makes it less likely that an exclusive studio will start releasing HD-DVDs as well.

So much for LG going neutral? We'll see... Remember there were also rumors months ago that Disney wanted to use VC-1 as well. Maybe the other studios pressured Sony into using VC-1 in their authoring tools?

[JTK]

I posted a direct link and posed the question about whether or not this was really true in the AVS Insiders thread. Hopefully I'll get an answer in short order.

I hope that Sony does take both MPEG4 and VC-1 for a spin and starts getting away from MPEG2.

It can only be a good thing for them, in any event.

[ProvenFlipper]

Originally Posted by JTK

I posted a direct link and posed the question about whether or not this was really true in the AVS Insiders thread. Hopefully I'll get an answer in short order.

I hope that Sony does take both MPEG4 and VC-1 for a spin and starts getting away from MPEG2.

It can only be a good thing for them, in any event.

Exactly... they have nothing to lose in this case. VC-1 has proven to be a great codec, even in its infancy. Disney has cranked out some really nice MPEG4 releases as well. Sony has mentioned that they have years of experience with MPEG2, but these newer codecs have produced great results and have been more consistant.

[BTBuck1]

Alladin recently changed his signature at avsforums to say,

HDDVD/BD VC-1 insider.

so we'll see.

[JTK]

Originally Posted by markrubin

I believe this report (Sony going VC-1) will be confirmed shortly

^^ Take it FWIW.

Mark is pretty well connected and well informed as a long time AVS forum moderator.

[GoldenRedux]

Originally Posted by JTK

Looks like Sony is going to be giving VC-1 a whirl if this article is accurate:

http://www.dvdfile.com/index.php?opt...=5683&Itemid=5

Specifically:




Good article, in general.


So much for the supposition though that you "have to encode to HD-DVD first to get VC-1 on Blu-ray" which the zealots were proposing, which was a ludicrous proposition to begin with, like so many other things they've written and said.

So many lies.


Just yet another nail in the coffin of HD-DVD if this ends up coming true.

Microsoft is going to "win" no matter what, by getting their codec royalty fees, including from their arch rival, so I think that's the beginning of the end right there.

Which makes me wonder why they would go with VC-1 and not H.264. Yeah, way to win a war Sony. How inept are they?