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Originally posted by Ronomy:
It's sad that there are two formats. That's the main reason why I'm in a wait and see status. It's also sad that Sony will not advocate VC-1 because it is a Microsoft codec but maybe that will kill Blu-ray. Although I would like Blu-ray to win and use VC-1.
I got the feeling that AVC (MPEG4) is no slouch either. Both VC-1 and AVC codec are being "learnt" at the moment by the transfer engineers, and the transfers will get better over time. BD does have the advantage that higher bit-rates are possible per layer...

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