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Jeremy Charette
07-25-2007, 01:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://hddvdstats.com/' target='_blank'>http://hddvdstats.com/</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/codecpie.png" /> <br /><br />This site is really impressive. If you ever wanted to know anything, and I mean <i>anything</i> about HD DVD sales, check it out. Highlights: most HD DVD releases are exclusives, VC-1 is the most common encoding format (making storage capacity a moot point), and Dolby Digital + is the most common audio format. Universal and Warner seem to be the biggest studios behind the HD DVD format.

jeffd
07-25-2007, 02:49 AM
Hehe, on the other hand if you look at all the hd "rips" on the net, AVC is the more popular format. Course I think that may have to do with ffmpeg/coreAVC support. I don't recall ffmpeg supporting VC1, cause for PC it is part of the MS video 9 codec, and who wants to use that? ;)

I like avc, though saddly my laptop is not quite powerfull enough for 1080p stuff, but everything 720p looks gorgeous.

Felix Torres
07-25-2007, 05:18 AM
The Codec spread is because of the availability of professional grade tools for VC-1. MS has been pushing VC-1 for digital cinema, among other things, so they've made sure that mastering tools were available ages ago. H.264 on the other hand won't be getting final versions of high-grade mastering tools till this summer/fall. That's why BD launched with MPEG2 content (Sony would rather die than use VC-1) although the need to justify the extra capacity of BluRay was also a factor.
I'm a bit surprised there is *any* HD-DVD content in MPEG2 but then again none is from the major studios.