HD DVD?

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Matthew Vaughan (matt-no-spam-109@NOSPAM.hotmail.com) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
> WMV9 is fully capable of the same
> quality as standard 720p or 1080i TV signals, and appearantly using
> substantially less bandwidth

There is no real indication this is true for actual 720/60p or 1080/60i,
since there have been no WMV samples with sources coming from either of
these HD modes, nor have there been any demonstrations of real-time
compression for WMV HD video.

Based on the uncompressed bitrate, WMV seems to be only about 10-20% better
than MPEG-2.

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Alan Figgatt (afiggatt@comcast.net) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
> There are universal players that play all known CD/DVD formats - CD,
> VCD, SACD, DVD, DVD-A, etc. Chances are we will eventually see a
> universal player which handles HD-DVD and BD, but they may have to have
> no less than 3 different heads with supporting electronics for each.

Two heads are enough for the Pioneer DVD/LD players, and the difference
between LD and other formats is a lot more than the difference between the
competing HD-DVD formats.

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