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Originally Posted by ganthc
I don't envy dugpa's ability to detect every artifact that could possibly appear in a video presentation.
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It's not easy being me.
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Originally Posted by supercutz
I guess the bigger question would be why the hell would any company bother using Mpeg2 when there's much better codecs available that are commonly used on HD media?
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Because changing codecs requires investing in new hardware and software at their encoding center. Add to that the fact that Sony holds part of the patents in mpeg2, and they were trying to cut corners and dollars. Unfrotunately for them public reaction to their first buy-ray discs was bad enough that they decided to clean up their act.