Sticking your foot in your mouth

[Brain Sturgeon]

Originally Posted by mavlow

I am seeing a lot of people saying Greed, last time i checked all these corporaitions are out there for one purpose...to make money. It has nothing to do with greed. They are just doing what they think is best for their share prices.

There... fixed it for you.

Yeah, when I read that quote by Joe Kane, I had one of those "WTF?" moments. How is using a proven codec that is used for the most popular media format ever (DVD) as well as for many OTA/Sat/Cable broadcasts about greed? MPEG-2 still works great, even for HiDef video, although not as efficiently as VC-1 or AVC (MPEG-4).

Speaking of VC-1, last I checked, that was a M$ codec; and what? M$ is not about greed? Gimme a freakin' break. M$ is only good at using their vast financial resources into developing other peoples' ideas for themselves to make more money. Name the last major innovation that M$ came up with.... <crickets>

I would think that industry standard codecs, like MPEG-2 or MPEG-4, that are developed by a large consortium of expert members in the field, should be used over codecs like VC-1, developed by a single corporation which collects all of the royalties, if you are really worried about "greed".

Although, lets not fool ourselves, everyone is out to make a buck.

Reading that quote knocked Joe Kane a number of notches down in my respect book.

I do love that a Blu-ray version of HDV Essentials is coming out. Now, do we think that was influenced by greed? Maybe someone has been peeking at the Nielsen/VideoScan numbers?