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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedMicrosoft wins 2nd approval: MPEG-4 also among spec OKs.(High-Def)
Video Business, September, 2004 by Sweeting, Paul
The Blu-ray Disc Assn. said last week it will add high-level video compression systems from Microsoft and MPEG to the format's specifications, allowing programmers to pack more high-definition content into the same amount of disc space. The move more closely aligns Blu-ray with the DVD Forum's HD DVD format, which previously adopted the two codecs into its specs.
The codecs, Microsoft's VC-1 (formerly VC-9) and MPEG-4 AVC (also called H.264), will be mandatory components of the main Blu-ray technology license, meaning anyone who wants to manufacture a Blu-ray player or recorder will have to include the Microsoft and MPEG software. Codecs, or compression/decompression systems, use high-level mathematical algorithms to squeeze large digital files into...
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