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WM 9 may become mandatory for HD DVD

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edited March 2004 in Nerdery
The DVD Forum, the industry group promoting the video format and developing future improvements, said its steering committee has provisionally approved Microsoft's Windows Media 9 as one of the mandatory elements of a high-definition DVD spec.

[blockquote]The choice of a more efficient video codec for the emerging HD DVD format has been one of the most contentious issues currently confronting the consumer electronics industry.
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[link=http://www.eet.com/sys/news/OEG20040302S0013]The full report[/link]

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    If HD-DVD is designed to alleviate the issues of 1080i displays on a 720x480 DVD picture looking like crap due to bitrate + dimensions + compression, Thrax fails to see how compressing it MORE with the inferior MPEG4 lameness of WM9 will resolve the issue.
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    it's not about what you want as a consumer, it's about the movie industry feeling "safer" because of MS's DRM crap, which will be broken 24-48 hrs. prior to release anyhow.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    Naturally. ;D
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