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[digitalvideo]

Hello to all,

Can you explain to me why warner and other choose the VC-1 as codec ?

Do you have any link that compare the 3 codec, at hd dvd
bit rates ?

thx for the help.

[communist]

Maybe they got it for cheap (lower licensing fees)? Or they just liked it more than the 2 other codecs - who knows.

I guess they picked it because you can use the same production pipeline to produce DRM'ed content for online sale - a market Warner has recently entered with the abomination that is in2movies.

They use DRM'ed WMVs (of not very high quality) there too judging by the free Harry Potter they offered. The DRM also didn seem very strong... at least it didn require latest updates and hence could be 'easily' decrypted. So maybe they will sell HD titles over that platform aswell - for *drum-roll* pretty much the same price as a HD DVD / Blu-ray disc ;)

[vsv]

I've agree with communists opinion about DRM
and may be the second reason is iHD only for vc-1/wmv and not possible with avc?

[Golgot13]

I've agree with communists opinion about DRM
and may be the second reason is iHD only for vc-1/wmv and not possible with avc?



No, it's only because they have Microsoft support (One section of Microsoft to help them).
And VC1 is a codec from Microsoft (easy for them to make compliant VC1 video for HD DVD...).



Golgot13