SMPTE Adoption Of WMV9 Hits Some Snags

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 23, 2004 @07:07AM from the just-some-pesky-baiting-and-switching dept.

SysKoll writes "EETimes is running an interesting story about the future of the video codecs for HD DVDs. The Redmond Beast convinced both the Blu-ray Disc Association and the DVD Forum to adopt its WMV9 video codec over MPEG4 for the upcoming VC-1 standard that is mandated for high-definition video devices. That was a huge coup for MS. Now it turns out that Microsoft cheated and lied: its code is not as good as MPEG 4, the WMV9 reference implementation is not available, and the WMV9 test suite does not exercise all the features. The SMPTE might drop WMV9 after all. Apparently, a highly technical standard body is harder to snowjob than the usual clueless consumers."

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The Redmond Beast... by Zork+the+Almighty · 2004-10-23 07:19 · Score: 0, Troll

Honestly, does every article have to be a troll ?

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Re:Microsoft vs. Apple: Two Warring Views of Media by BillTheKatt · 2004-10-23 08:06 · Score: 0, Troll

Silly me, I forgot Apple wasn't a monopoly! I'll run right down to the nearest Frys and put together my own MAC. Thank heavens for open hardware like Apple!