Microsoft LongHorn to support HD-DVD - Canadian TV, Computing and Home Theatre Forums

satphile · 2004-07-26, 10:04 PM

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Splash · 2004-07-26, 10:52 PM

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Microsoft said it does not know if it will support Blu-Ray technology from Sony and Philips in Longhorn

Can you say BRIBES?

jeneral · 2004-07-26, 11:04 PM

The only thing I'm being cautious about re: HD-DVD is the use of different CODECs. I'm sure factory DVD's will look great, but home recordings (if they even allow us to make them :wink: ) may suffer due to re-encoding. With VC9 and H.264, along with 8 to 12 Mb bitrates, things may get more complicated than need be. Then again, recordable HD-DVDs aren't going to fit much using standard ATSC streams. We'll have to wait and see.

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2004-07-26, 11:04 PM	#3
jeneral Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Mississauga, ON Posts: 323	The only thing I'm being cautious about re: HD-DVD is the use of different CODECs. I'm sure factory DVD's will look great, but home recordings (if they even allow us to make them :wink: ) may suffer due to re-encoding. With VC9 and H.264, along with 8 to 12 Mb bitrates, things may get more complicated than need be. Then again, recordable HD-DVDs aren't going to fit much using standard ATSC streams. We'll have to wait and see.