Blue-ray and Microsoft

[MikieV]

As for Blu-Ray, there are 3 codecs accepted, mpeg-2, vc-1 (aka vc-9 aka wmv) and h.264 (mpeg-4). Sony leads the Blu-Ray group, so if Blu-Ray becomes the next generation HD disc approved by Hollywood (and not HD-DVD, Blu-Rays rival), don't expect MS to dominate this area as well. It's completely up to the studios which codec they will use for pre-recorded material (aka movies), so if MS tries to milk them too hard for VC-1 license fees, they will just use h.264.

It'll be interesting to see if you are right, after news of Sony et. al. buying MGM.

Part of a news story, which caught my eye:

Including the titles owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, the Sony group will now control about 40 percent of all movies ever produced by Hollywood, according to some estimates.

For Sony, owning MGM could also advance its cause in the battle to establish the next DVD format. Sony is part of a consortium that supports the Blu-ray format against a format called HD DVD, which is endorsed by Japan's NEC Corp. and others.

Mikiev

[burnman99]

I'd better watch this thread carefully for a flame war to break out. I see it coming

Here - I'll flame myself so nobody gets a yellow card:

"PCs are for sheep - people who can't think for themselves"

or -----

"Macs are Fisher Price baby machines, like hardware AOL"

There. Now maybe we won't have any flaming

Strangely enough, i agree with both of those statements....they both su....Ow! Ouch! Oooh! Ow! Quit throwing things!!!

Later!

Rog

[proxyx99]

Some of you can start sending your posts via regular mail to P.O. Box if you can't live with your PC.

[Capmaster]

I'd better watch this thread carefully for a flame war to break out. I see it coming

Here - I'll flame myself so nobody gets a yellow card:

"PCs are for sheep - people who can't think for themselves"

or -----

"Macs are Fisher Price baby machines, like hardware AOL"

There. Now maybe we won't have any flaming

Strangely enough, i agree with both of those statements....they both su....Ow! Ouch! Oooh! Ow! Quit throwing things!!!

Later!

Rog

Both have an element of truth in them
<also ducks for cover>

[burnman99]

I'm still not sure about M$Soft & DVD but i will say this. I just installed Red Hat 9 on my other machine and....OMG How in blazes do you get any downloaded programs to install?!? First you unzip the tarball, but wait it's the source so you've got to go to command line to compile it.....oh wait, You're missing these 5 other pieces?! You go to unzip them and AYIEE THEY"RE missing other parts!!! All of a sudden $89.99 for Setup.exe is looking pretty good. I WILL get it, but it is certainly more difficult than I had anticipated, My apologies to Mr Gates.

Have fun stormin' the castle!

Rog