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Originally Posted by DaViD Boulet

Amir quoted much lower numbers: Amir's starting point for "sweet spot" right NOW was already below where realistically might be 5 years out with Gary's prediction... and his final numbers for a mature VC-1 codec were pushing downward towards SD DVD levels... probalby as a pre-justifiction for downloading bandwidth requirements. Indeed, most of MS's VC-1 compressions maintain an ABR below 18 mbps.

I thought that fairly recently (post-retirement) he had been citing mid-20's as the "sweet spot."