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Miscellaneous => Intellectual Property & Law => Topic started by: mobrien_12 on 2 September 2004, 04:25

Title: OFFICIAL. MS will be in all Next Gen DVD formats.
Post by: mobrien_12 on 2 September 2004, 04:25

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/09/01/1444254.shtml?tid=198&tid=109&tid=155&tid=17&tid=218 (http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/09/01/1444254.shtml?tid=198&tid=109&tid=155&tid=17&tid=218)

Blu-Ray is going to require MicroSoft's patented VC-1 Codec.  HD-DVD already incorporated MS' patented video codecs.  

Guess what this means for Open Source Video Players?

Title: OFFICIAL. MS will be in all Next Gen DVD formats.
Post by: skyman8081 on 2 September 2004, 10:33

That they now have the specs of the VC-1 codec?

Title: OFFICIAL. MS will be in all Next Gen DVD formats.
Post by: Xeen on 2 September 2004, 18:30

All this news means is that MS has won the battle to have their codec be one of the 3 codecs that will be required to be supported on all next generation dvd players. But when making the choice of which codec to use, filmmakers will still have the choice of the MS codec, MPEG-4, and MPEG-2. I for one will never use MS.