Steve, both VC-1 and MPEG-4 are good codecs. At 50GB of storage space there are few exceptions in movie titles that will need that much storage space to house the movie using either of those two codecs. MPEG-2 will need much more (~2x) the storage space for same resolution and PQ reproduction compared to VC-1/MPEG-4.
Also, it greatly depends on the studio's desires for how the titles are mastered and not just which codec they use. What I would like to know is how many people have experimented with authoring drives (both Blu-ray and HD DVD) in the consumer world to create test disks to effectively test playback hardware.
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Steve, both VC-1 and MPEG-4 are good codecs. At 50GB of storage space there are few exceptions in movie titles that will need that much storage space to house the movie using either of those two codecs. MPEG-2 will need much more (~2x) the storage space for same resolution and PQ reproduction compared to VC-1/MPEG-4.
Also, it greatly depends on the studio's desires for how the titles are mastered and not just which codec they use. What I would like to know is how many people have experimented with authoring drives (both Blu-ray and HD DVD) in the consumer world to create test disks to effectively test playback hardware.