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Felix, you mention VC-1 on BD, but I'm curious as to what your opinion is on MPEG-4 AVC (aka H.264) and its quality based on anything you may know about it. I know of these two formats as well as MPEG2 for HD content, and although I can't comment on this myself, if I'm understanding you, it sounds as if you believe MPEG2 is probably the worst of the bunch...
But since both BD and HD-DVD can support all three compression formats, it makes me think that any of the formats very well may be used on any given movie by the studios, and which could also suggest that this flexibility was bred into these disc technologies for exactly that purpose - flexibility for the studios. So based on this, even though these formats don't produce exactly the same quality, could we ever know (as end consumers) which one is being used from one movie to the next? Not that we'd need to, but it would be interesting to know. (Then again, maybe this info would be listed on the back of the case). This is all assuming that the studios are who determine which of the three compression formats will be used when encoding a movie in HD. Maybe you have some light to shed on this.
I'd also be curious to know which format consistently produces the best results, barring hardware differences.
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