I would think this is more of "General" posting than one in blu-ray...

Ok, the old news now is that the HD disc format war is over. We obviously have one standard - which may be around for 10 years, maybe more.

But I'm not talking just a disc standard. We all know about the latest camera format AVCHD, and even its deliverable counterpart AVCREC - an H.264 format, which can be burned to any disc, or inputted through other means (input, cards, USB, etc.) that can be, at least theoretically, playable on every blu-ray player everywhere without any extra features, certification from codecs, or anything else.

It's a pure standard. Period.

It delivers among the highest quality possible for file size. It's portable, flexible and comes in several resolutions - even SD. In its container stream, M2TS, it even allows AC3 and/or LPCM - two very well established audio formats.

I'm just wondering, does the crowd here think that this would be very similar to video like mp3 is to music or jpg is to digitial images? Since this is a high quality compressed standard playable in all next-gen disc formats I can see it being big - a format we'll all be encoding to when making our own stuff, archiving video, etc. for our blu-ray players now and in the future.

I'm already visioning my whole video library, tapes, DvDs, family movies, avi's, mpegs, etc. - anything that isn't already a purchasable BD disc - converted to this format in the next year or so. The software market is already adjusting to it. And no, I'm not a pirate, but hypothetically speaking I don't doubt that this will be the next hot thing on Bittorrent too.

What do you think? Thanks for reading.