Quote Originally Posted by dobyblue View Post
It's rich that you would chastize me for using a 2006 interview about TL HD DVD discs (which is pertinent because both HD45 and HD51 are both triple layer discs and the interview was with a TOSHIBA engineer), then you would turn around and suggest that MPEG-2 is still the most commonly used codec on BLu-ray. Now there isn't anything wrong with MPEG-2, but to suggest that it is STILL the most commonly used codec is typical HD DVD Propagana Group type stuff.

Let's look at 2007 shall we, the last 48 or so weeks.

MPEG-2 65 23.30%
AVC 132 47.31%
VC-1 82 29.39%

Still the most commonly used? I don't think so. Perhaps there are still more discs out there with MPEG-2, but only a fool would suggest that's not changing rapidly with all the great AVC encodes Panasonic are churning out for Disney and Fox and Sony's great AVC ecnodes as well.


Doby, you know better. I posted recently that Sony's Mpeg2 encoding equipment investment was a big reason for making sure Blu-ray had extra storage and bandwidth. It was needed to allow Mpeg2 to deliver the same sort of image quality that can be achieved with AVC/Mpeg4 and VC1.

As further proof points on this we saw Sony Pictures release all of their titles in Mpeg2 in 2006 and Don Eklund telling us that Mpeg2 was better than AVC/Mpeg4 and VC1. Now that Sony is shipping new AVC/Mpeg4 encoding equipment, they no longer need to sell us on the superiority of Mpeg2......they are now mostly releasing in AVC/Mpeg4.

Funny coincidence huh? When they only have Mpeg2 encoding equipment to sell, it's the best codec there is. Now that they have AVC/Mpeg4 encoding equipment for sale......well you get the picture.

I've posted this all before, but I'm going to assume you didn't catch it as this thread moves fast.