Cliff Benham wrote: > [from a friend who is supposed to know whereof he speaks...] > > "Well, Microsoft, the H.264 consortium, et.al. have done it. > > They couldn't find a way to play nice in their little sandbox. None of > them will make anything from their digital video formats. > > The Library of Congress, and Digital Cinema have gone with JPEG2000. > Lib of Congress selected J2K years ago and Digital Cinema maybe a year or 2 ago. > The compression rate for JPEG2000 is incredible. An over 2 hour > theatrical release takes only 250 G. All I frames, so no time fractured > macro blocking. > Yes, but 125GB/hr equates to about 280Mbps whereas an HD movie in MPEG2/H264 is the 50Mbps and less category. At the same bit rate, is one better than the other? I don't know. But, J2K is a completely different approach to compression with much different characteristics - those different characteristics may have been what really drove these decisions. > So on the 4 RU storage system that Sun just announced (48 TB) you could > put close to 200 movies with resolution several times that of HDTV." > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: > > - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at > FreeLists.org > > - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word > unsubscribe in the subject line. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.