Longhorn to support HD-DVD

hmurchisonhmurchison
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Longhorn support for HD-DVD



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An executive at Microsoft's Japanese unit said at a briefing on HD DVD technology that it was not yet decided whether Longhorn, the next version of Windows, would support the rival Blu-ray technology from a consortium of companies, including Sony Corp



Not suprising since HD-DVD supports MS' own VC-9 codec. I see this as more of a play to "urge" Sony to support VC-9 in Blu Ray as the second codec to MPEG2

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    nebagakidnebagakid Posts: 2,692member
    they can say whatever the fuck they want to say, it doesn't make a difference until they deliver.
  • Reply 2 of 3
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    They seem to have a problem with that part.
  • Reply 3 of 3
    hmurchisonhmurchison Posts: 12,437member
    I know what this really is. It's not about MS letting us know about OS functionality that won't be delivered until 2 years from now. This is Microsoft at its best.





    Fact #1- Sony is facing an uphill battle to get Blu Ray entrenched as a possible nextgen HDTV format.



    Fact #2- Blu Ray only support MPEG2 TS right now. This means despite the 20GB advantage Blu Ray offers over HD-DVD in capacity that yields no extra playback/recording time due to the inefficiencies of MPEG2 compared to AVC or VC-9.



    There's your anwer for why MS has made this statement folks. They are leveraging Longhorn to "woo" Sony into choosing VC-9 as a secondary codec. Basically MS is telling Sony "Support our format or we'll make it look like Blu Ray doesn't have the support of the largest computing platform on Earth"



    This is big folks. This isn't about Longhorn, it's about making sure that if/when Sony chooses one of the new generation codecs(AVC and VC-9) that it's Microsoft's VC-9.



    With VC-9 established in both HD-DVD and Blu Ray Microsoft can be more influential in our DRM works in the context of Operating Systems. They created VC-9 thus they have the inside track on utilizing it best.
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