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HD DVD Coming Very Soon

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the pretty-pictures dept.

x mani x writes "While the DVD Forum continues quibbling over a new blue-laser based HD-DVD standard, it looks like Microsoft has been busy developing a new video compression method that can show high quality HD video at bitrates similar to current DVD's (between 5-8mbps). Proof, you say? Check out some stunning samples of this cutting edge technology. Myself and many others have watched it and most of us feel this is significantly better looking than MPEG-4/DivX HD video of the same bitrate. This technology is causing some excitement, as the T2: Extreme Edition DVD package will include a DVD containing T2 in HD, compressed with this technology. Anyone with a fast PC will be able to watch T2 in high def, no pricey blue laser player required."

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  1. Bzzzt! by turgid · · Score: 1, Troll

    Wrong!
    Better image and video compression has been promised for years, in the shape of wavelent encoding. Such methods give a factor of 10 better compression that discrete cosine (i.e. fourier) coding as used in MPEG and JPEG with less of the blocking artifacts. I can't be bothered to read the article, because it's nothing new as usual from Microsoft. It's been done before, a decade ago by people with more brains. The trouble is they patented a load of the algorithms so there's been no Free, free or Open implementation.

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  2. Initial two first thoughts on the matter ... by jstockdale · · Score: 1, Troll

    "We're sorry. This Windows Media 9 Series content is only available to be viewed using Internet Explorer."

    Microsoft Anticompetitive? Never!
    *Randomize*
    Antitrust case my ass.

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  3. Re:Agreed standards by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 0, Troll

    Are you supporting Microsoft's freedom to innovate?

    Doesn't that make it difficult to sit down?

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  4. Re:Or Linux, or MacOSX.... by Tet · · Score: 0, Troll
    They're porting WMP9 to linux

    Really? So can you provide a link where I can download Linux/SPARC and and Linux/PPC binaries, please? No? I thought not. Open codecs are the only way forward. The world is not an x86.

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  5. Re:I actually tried to check this out... by wheany · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, but some people do look through the source code.

    Name three.

  6. Re:screw them by MaestroRC · · Score: 1, Troll

    The reason they are .exe's is because they are SELF-EXTRACTING ZIP files. While this may be yet another way they try to make sure you are running Windows, it does make sense.

    "Why not just make them a .zip you say?" Well, a lot of people want to just double click, then open. That is the target audience.

    Of course, if you want to just continue bashing Microsoft without even looking at what it is, go right ahead. Everyone else here on /. seems to think that's the best route.

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