Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Next-Gen Blu-Ray DVDs to Use Ancient MPEG2 Codec? Sony Says "Yup!"
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 01:00 AM
"As Hollywood readies its new and controversial high-definition DVDs, at least one major studio is leaving some of the most advanced parts of the new disc formats on the table in favor of technology that's more than a decade old. That could mean disappointment for some of the tech industry's biggest names, particularly if other studios follow suit. Companies such as Microsoft and Apple Computer have been betting that their work on advanced video software formats, called "codecs," will help them sell their own products."...Last week, studio giant Sony Pictures quietly voted for "none of the above," and took a swipe at the new codec formats. The new advanced codecs aren't immediately necessary for discs released in Sony's high-capacity Blu-ray format, Sony Pictures executives said in an interview with CNET News.com, and the studio would instead use the 11-year-old MPEG-2 video codec used on today's DVDs."
Well, that explains why Sony needs so much storage - they're using a very old codec that has been surpassed several times over in both quality and space saving functionality. Sony, you never cease to underwhelm me.
Well, that explains why Sony needs so much storage - they're using a very old codec that has been surpassed several times over in both quality and space saving functionality. Sony, you never cease to underwhelm me.
