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December 11, 2005
What’s in a codec?
Sony Pictures caused a bit of a stir in the high-def world the other day when it announced the first full-length film to be authored and encoded on a Blu-ray Disc, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, was compressed using MPEG-2, the same codec used for standard DVDs.
Moreover, in comments to reporters following the announcement, Sony officials indicated that all of the initial batch of titles at launch, from Sony as well as other studios, would also likely be encoded in MPEG-2. Although the format is designed to support two newer, more efficient codecs, Microsoft’s VC-1 and a version of MPEG-4, Sony said it is likely to rely on the tried-and-true MPEG-2 “for the foreseeable future.”
Category : Industry News
Posted by dvd software at December 11, 2005 05:03 PM
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