Higher peak bitrate speeds up encoding 'considerably', saves studios money

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Originally Posted by WickyWoo

THey could, it doesn't mean they will

Warner is likely continuing to use VC-1 because their engineers are comfortable with the toolset

Originally Posted by Maxpower1987

Indeed, but I have heard some people are eager to get down and dirty with the latest AVC tools which are very good and get better results than VC-1 in 9/10 cases.

I was asking more about bitrate than codecs. I wasn't sure if you meant they will continue using VC-1 so we won't see any highly detailed transfers because VC-1 doesn't benefit from higher bitrates.

My biggest problem with Warner is that I haven't seen any great looking titles from them. I thought The Departed looked good but there wasn't any "wow" factor like I've seen many times before on non-Warner releases.

I guess my question should have been if we will ever see any top tier releases from Warner once they are no longer burdened with HD DVD?