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Blu-ray selects 'BD-Rom' video codecs.(Technology)(Brief Article)

Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), the industry organisation behind the high definition (HD) optical disk format, has selected both Microsoft's VC-1 and the MPEG-4 AVC High Profile advanced video compression codecs as mandatory codecs for the Blu-ray Disc ROM (BD-ROM) specification. Video codecs are used to compress video images for disc storage and then decompress them for viewing.

The 13-company BDA--which includes Sony, Philips and Matsushita--has been seeking to maximise the 50 Gb capacity of the discs, and has thus moved away from the MPEG-2 format to offer a viable

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