The Bits: Best Buy to drop HD-DVD

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Originally Posted by ikbradley

Word is their HD-DVD video encodes can't simply be ported over to Blu-ray, as most of them "aren't good enough."

Ouch! Good news for Blu-ray because Universal had horrible transfers to HD DVD. Hopefully they will get some people from Disney to help them out.

It's not Disney that makes the Disney titles look good, it's the good folks at Panasonic Hollywood Labs.

They do the encodes for Fox and Disney in AVC/MPEG-4 and have no doubt shown Universal some test encodes of some of their source material by now also.

I would bet Panasonic would do their part to make the transition to Blu as smooth as possible for Universal.

Of course Disney are responsible for presenting excellent source material for Panasonic to encode, so I don't mean to take that away from them.