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Originally posted by: zion
According to the specs, both formats will use the same MPEG4 codec, so it really comes down to which one can handle the higher bitrate, which is blu-ray.
okay, yeah. assuming the two formats are released with support for the same codecs, support for the same features of those codecs, the compression software's similar enough... then Blu-Ray should have better video quality. i can't avoid the suspicion, though, that Sony might still get something wrong, either with the product itself or with the marketing strategy. i'd guess their best chance of success is in the possibility that Toshiba surrenders at the last hour and simply cancels the "format war."
or maybe Sony loses in the American market but wins in the European market, as Europe is pretty far behind Japan & the U.S. on the HDTV hardware front so they're not exactly marching out in the streets & calling for high-definition content yet. while in the U.S. there's a considerable number of people who want high-def discs as soon as possible. *shrugs*