Toshiba develops new compresion tech for HD DVD
Today's latest CODECs can do some amazing things in the quality vs size compromise, but anyone who has tried to encode their own knows how challenging it can be. Members of the Blu-ray camp have claimed they use MPEG2 for just that reason. To make using the latest CODECs easier, Toshiba has developed an encoder that can run on a PC and even encode in real time, which they say will make content creation even easier and faster.
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GhostDoggy @ Sep 17th 2006 9:21AM
Unless something has changed, the only movie studio sticking squarely with MPEG-2 (exclusively) is Sony. None of the other studios have excluded the use of VC1 or MPEG-4. The flip side of the coin is the question as to whether or not Toshiba will offer American consumers the ability to get 1080P output from the HD DVD 1080 mastered disks on their poster-child $499 HD DVD player.
The answer, obviously, is no.
Franssu @ Sep 17th 2006 12:07PM
GhostDoggy : And why is 1080p output sooo important ? Most 1080p devices only take 1080i signal and deinterlace them. And besoides, 1080p/24 (what is encoded on film-based HD-DVDs) converted to 1080p/60 is just repeating the images, which seem pointless.