Another "stunner" from Dreamworks? (Anchorman)

[Maximus]

Originally Posted by Esox50

But if they knew their contract was a short term thing, then what Wicky posted makes complete sense so they don't have to duplicate or re-do transfers to BD specs in the future. I personally don't know if what was posted is possible w/ AVC (vs. VC-1), and I don't want to ask the Insiders if it is because I'm sure they cannot comment even if it is true.

Wicky is pretty darn reliable, so I'll take his word for it if that's what he's heard through the grapevine.

Actually it has very little to do with Blu-ray.

Toshiba Japan are providing the authoring services for Paramount HD DVD. Toshiba ar one of the premier AVC-using post-houses.

A little history lesson:

When HD DVD was first formulated it was a red laser diode, two layer, 720p format which was going to use AVC as its primary CODEC. When Blu arrived boasting 1080p on 50GB with MPEG2, HD DVD reacted by enlisting MS and adding VC-1 to the spec. Toshiba have much more at stake than just the physical structure, before the war their Japan post-house was one of the most respected in the community, but since they let MS take the reigns of HD DVD and talk smack about AVC and Toshiba's own encoder they have lost a lot of that respect. 'The World's Best Compressionist' called Toshiba's AVC encoder 'broken' (which it most definitely isn't) and a pig to use, whilst safe in the knowledge that anyone who even breathed a (bad) word about PEP (Microsoft's VC-1 encoder) would be sued into oblivion.