Video Asylum

Posted by Joe Murphy Jr (A) on January 24, 2008 at 21:15:03

In Reply to: RE: Uncompressed PCM would work with 99% of the content out there. posted by oscar on January 24, 2008 at 19:47:08

It's about what the studios will be giving us tomorrow. "Extra value" content is going to start ramping up now that there's a clearer path for High Definition optical media. Studios will be more inclined to give the format more features, commentaries, games, interactive content, deleted scenes, alternate endings, additional language tracks...

I think you get the picture. Weighing in with 48Mb/s of audio-video bandwidth and 50GB of storage space, even Blu-ray is no match for the studios and their inclination to "give us more of what we want" (not that everyone really wants the extras they're giving). What PCM cannot do is save bandwidth and storage space -- the advanced audio codecs can, and when used correctly, are actually better than PCM in several ways.

Remember, this is the "big picture" view, not the "my system" view.