Greed? HD-DVD is all about greed. First they tried to use a red laser instead of blue. Then the powers-that-be claimed it would cost too much to make discs to the specifications of Blu-Ray. Then, to shore up its patent gravy-train, Toshiba sold itself out to Microsoft like a $5 street walker to back the format in exchange for not using Java for the menu screen graphics and to pimp VC-1 as its defacto codec. Does anyone really think H.264 is going to be widely used on HD-DVD titles? Dream on. Sure, Sony is going to double-dip by shipping MPEG2 encoded discs until their Blu-Ray player hits the market, but you can best bet that with the influence of Sony and Apple on the format, there will be relatively few Blu-Ray titles shipping encoded in the inferior-to-H.264 VC-1.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Greed? HD-DVD is all about greed. First they tried to use a red laser instead of blue. Then the powers-that-be claimed it would cost too much to make discs to the specifications of Blu-Ray. Then, to shore up its patent gravy-train, Toshiba sold itself out to Microsoft like a $5 street walker to back the format in exchange for not using Java for the menu screen graphics and to pimp VC-1 as its defacto codec. Does anyone really think H.264 is going to be widely used on HD-DVD titles? Dream on. Sure, Sony is going to double-dip by shipping MPEG2 encoded discs until their Blu-Ray player hits the market, but you can best bet that with the influence of Sony and Apple on the format, there will be relatively few Blu-Ray titles shipping encoded in the inferior-to-H.264 VC-1.