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Red vs. Blue Lasers Complicate DVD's Future

Posted by timothy on from the outlook-hazy dept.

bnavarro writes: "The EE Times is reporting that the DVD Forum's Steering Committee voted this week to approve the use of low-bit-rate compression for high-definition DVD. The DVD Forum's decision, made at a meeting Tuesday (Feb. 26) in Tokyo, to stick with a red-laser-based scheme but switch to low-bit-rate compression, came only a week after nine of the world's biggest electronics companies agreed to promote a blue-laser-based format for next-generation video and computer optical disks."

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  1. Why bother? by forgoil · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This feels like a step back towards VHS to be honest. No matter which laser and underlying techique for saving the bits they use, they want to use a lower bitrate, and that will not make for good results. Is this so that we can't enjoy good quality movies at home? The day they start to care about quality, for real, is the last day I will ever download a movie...