Microsoft wins DVD codec approval
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on February 28, 2004 at 7:25:38 PM
All this plus and minus crap is coming to the next generation Blue Laser DVD writers. Two standards are emerging and Microsoft's VC-9 codec has been placed as one of the codecs to be used in the HD-DVD standard. The other standard is Blu-ray. Damn split formats.
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A standards win on DVDs would dramatically buoy Microsoft's ambitions to take its multimedia technology beyond the Internet. It also could give the Redmond, Wash., giant substantial credibility when it shops its codec to partners outside of the PC business.