Will Slysoft support both HD-DVD and Blue Ray?

Does SlySoft tend to support both formats if they both take off? Or will they support whichever one out shines the other? I know both are new and it is a little difficult to say which one will be the fore runner.

 

Slysoft as of now is going with HD-DVD, this could change though if Blu-Ray becomes the winner in the next few months. AnyHD-DVD is due to be released in the next few weeks.

 

I own both a Blu-Ray and HD-DVD player. The Blu-Ray picture is dog crap compared to the HD-DVD. I don't understand how anyone can argue superiority on the Blu-Ray side. Anyone that does has never seen both pictures side by side.

 

Why the heck did you buy a Blu-Ray player?

 

It was a stupid idea for Sony to stick with mpeg2 for a lot of their BluRay transfers. Just because you have the space to do it doesn't make it the right thing to do. The ones that use the other formats are closer in quality to HD-DVD.

 

I thought, and of course I have no experience with this so I am probably wrong here, that they were STARTING to release BluRay discs encoded in the other formats? I'll have to see if I can find where I saw that.

 

From Wikipedia.

 

According to the Wikipedia Blu-Ray article:

So it wouldn't surprise me if MPEG-2 compression dissapeared entirely off HD releases in the near future.

 

Ah, ok, I see what you mean. I was pretty sure there were bluray movies out there that weren't mpeg2 based. mpeg2 is probably the WORST idea for HD video. VC1 would be my choice(as much as I hate supporting MS...it is the best as far as I've seen so far).

 

Uhh, I just posted that.

 

We could only hope. Maybe BluRay can go along with it? ROFLMAO!

 

Maybe, but I can't see licensing costs remaining a factor forever. The difference will become negligable, eventually. And even now, there's still the advantage that the other codecs have better compression than MPEG-2, allowing you to get more bonus content onto a disc alongside the movie without going to a second disc.

 

I wasn't going to comment on H.264 cause I've yet to see anything done in that format yet. But I've seen VC1 and I really like it. MS has been on a roll lately.

 

Lately SamuriHL, they have been on a roll since 1984. Too bad we didn't buy that stock back then. We would all have HD and Blu-Ray entertainment Centers now. LOL.

 

Ok, ok. I'll give you that. I'm a former C++ developer who has switched to Java and gotten away from Windows only development these days, so, I tend to think about MS from that side of things. Maybe I'm a bit jaded. However, I absolutely give them MAJOR props for the Xbox 360 and Live. This is coming from a HUGE Sony Playstation fan...who is now an EX-Sony fan who refuses to get a PS3. But yes, stock would have been nice!! Too bad I was only 11.

 

Sweet, I didn't know that you knew how to program. How geeky are you with computers? No offense.