OWC launches Blu-ray/HD DVD burner with multiple inputs

Ya' know....................Mix them OWC letters up and re-arrange them and ya' get COW!!

Don't know if I want the cow.............really just want the milk.

I'd comment on yours lynchGOP but itd be way off topic lolll none the less you comment amused me =P

Will HD-DVD blank media continue to exist after the creation of this drive? There is no point in providing HD-DVD burning if media will not be available at a large scale, unless Toshiba focuses on production of blank media. This would be awesome but a the same time bad because it will hurt sony in every way. If Toshiba were to focus and develop licensing of its blank HD-DVD media to disc manufactures, I'm most certain sales of Blu-ray movies would drop because everyone would transcode movies into HD-DVD. Since Toshiba owns most of the codecs, toshiba could in fact restrict or deny its licensing of its codecs and this would force Sony to revert back to its MPEG-2 codec they were using during the initial stage of blu-ray movies.

Originally posted by locobrown:

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Since Toshiba owns most of the codecs,

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Toshiba owns the codecs?

Toshiba is only a small part of the patent pool for both VC-1 and AVC. Toshiba doesn't have the clout to force Sony or any BluRay studio to use a codec it doesn't want to use. In fact, it's more profitable for Toshiba is studios continue to use AVC and VC-1 since they get a part of the licensing fees.

The License Pools for the codecs used in BluRay/HD DVD:

VC-1

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MPEG LA's VC-1 Patent Portfolio License currently includes patents owned by DAEWOO Electronics Corporation; France Télécom, société anonyme*; Fujitsu Limited; Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.; LG Electronics Inc.; Microsoft Corporation; Mitsubishi Electric Corporation; Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation; Panasonic Corporation; Pantech&Curitel Communications, Inc.; Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.; Sharp Corporation; Siemens AG; Sony Corporation; Telenor ASA; Toshiba Corporation; Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (JVC).

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http://www.mpegla.com/vc1/

AVC/H.264

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MPEG LA's AVC Patent Portfolio License currently includes patents owned by DAEWOO Electronics Corporation; Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute; France Télécom, société anonyme*; Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.; Fujitsu Limited; Hitachi, Ltd.; Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.; LG Electronics Inc.; Microsoft Corporation; Mitsubishi Electric Corporation; NTT DoCoMo, Inc.; Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation; Panasonic Corporation; Robert Bosch GmbH**; Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.; Scientific-Atlanta Vancouver Company; Sedna Patent Services, LLC; Sharp Corporation; Siemens AG; Sony Corporation; The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York; Toshiba Corporation; and Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.

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http://www.mpegla.com/avc/

MPEG LA is the body that licenses the patent pools for the different codecs.

blank hd-dvd will exist because the players still exsist.. for a while blu ray content has been extracted and put on hd-dvd disc for other countries hence why its region free.. =]