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.
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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.