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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Feb 2007
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SONY offers free BluRay Players
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:33:20 -0000, wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:45:56 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
While MS may be taking it on the chin with a bad bet, it's the consumer
who likes to mess around with video that's going to take it right up the
old wazoo.
Forcing one to use Apple's codec software over MS's codec software is
the same coin - just different sides.
And frankly, working with QT sucks. You never know from one video clip
processing to the next if it will play without futzing with this or that
to make it work.
Don't get me lying here, but I believe Blu-Ray is backward compatible,
and supports MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and VC-1.
Yeah - I know.
It's the principle of the thing. :)
QT codecs - the problem is that they are buggy on non-Apple or
non-Apple approved applications. And MS doesn't like to play with QT
for whatever reason.
One standard, upgradable format - it that too much to ask for? :)
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