blu-ray to use mpeg2?

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Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: DaiShan

Originally posted by: Sureshot324
MPEG2???
I can see them not using H264 because of all the cpu power that uses, but there are plenty of other good codecs they can use, such as divx or xvid, which shouldn't use a significant amount of cpu power by todays standards. If they start out with mpeg2 it will be hard to switch codecs later, because all the old players will need firmware updates.

AVC is where it's at right now. It will allow much higher bandwidth while using the same space as MPEG2. It's such a waste to use MPEG2 for next gen systems. There is a LOT more to this debate (I've been encoding and producing videos/DVD's for the past 5 years) but thats for a more technical forum (than OT)

mpeg2 probably has lower licensing costs (which will keep movie costs down), it has lower hardware requirements (keeping player price down as well as livability... i sure as hell don't want a dustbuster fan in my living room while playing dvds), and for the average consumer that is a lot of the reason to pick a format.

It's called hardware acceleration bud, I'm surprised nobody has thought about this already. Do you guys really believe they have PIIs in those dvd players? NO! They have hardware decoders that decode JUST MPEG2, they can do the same for H264.... You won't need a 3GHZ processor to decode it because it'll be all in hardware. Why do you think the computer industry when to GPUs? Because they're specialized and can do a lot more with a lot less.