Friday, October 22, 2004

DVD Format War

News on the ongoing format war. It's looking like the blue laser technology may win out.

1 comment:

Joshua Provost said...

And HD DVD vs. BluRay is just the storage media format war. There are likely wars about the logical structure (what we know today as IFO and VBO files on the DVD with a max throughput of 9.8kbps) and compression formats (Microsoft's Media format, H.284(?), and extensions of MPEG-2, to name a few). And what about what mechanisms will be put in place to prevent copying (and by extension fair use)? Sony usually shoots for stricter controls than other manufacturers.