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Re: [News] Sony: We Won Format War

__/ [ Guy Fawkes ] on Tuesday 13 February 2007 19:03 \__

> 
> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
> news:45075138.CPbWK098qL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Sony's New Blu-ray Marketing Message: Format War is Over
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment worldwide president David Bishop made
>> | the comments to trade newspaper Video Business in reaction to widely
>> | reported Neilsen/VideoScan sales figures indicating that Blu-ray
>> | discs outsold HD DVD in January by a ratio of 2:1.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/468
>>
> 
> It's merely wishfull thinking.
> 
> I believe Sony et al picked the wrong codec (MPEG-2) for Blue Ray. HD-DVD
> uses MPEG-4 (or something with similar compression) and it has superior
> picture quality with a lower datarate.

Sony has taken the G W Bush Approach. The war is over and Sony has won. But
we shall see...


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