The Micosoft Windows Media Video
codec 9 (VC 9) as well as H.264 and MPEG-2 became the DVD Forum provisionally in the next standard for HD DVDs www. dvdforum.org/25scmtg-resolution.htm (included). Prerequisite for amendments to the License Agreement within the next 60 days. This decision represents a big step for Microsoft to crown the efforts of late, Windows Media 9 for HD content to establish, see 
here. Microsoft focuses on different markets: the home entertainment market (set-top boxes and standalone DVD player) and the broadcast market. It is lucrative for the developer of the standard which prevails in the market through licensing fees, which are then due for the respective formats de / encoding hardware (eg, currently 10 cents for each Windows Media 9 encoder). A prerequisite for this decision was that Microsoft's consent, its codec technology as an open standard of the competent Organsiation SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) to propose, which is an OPENING of Windows Media 9 for other developers. Remains to be seen to control the type of DRM mechanism of the playback of HD DVD video will be. HD-DVD is the next generation of DVD technology, with blue, replacing the previously used red lasers because of its shorter wavelength, and is working a lot more pack of information on a DVD disc, namely 20 GB for rewritable DVDs, 15 GB for single layer and 30 GB for dual-layer recordable DVDs easily. Unfortunately, it seems that the whole controversy with competing formats (DVD + R / DVD-) repeat: HD DVD is developed by NEC and Toshiba, and is also in competition to operate with blue laser Blue-ray procedures including Sony, Hitachi, Philips and Samsung. The third version comes from China and www.cdfreaks.com/news/8346 called Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD). What is needed is a new storage format by the large amount of data that needs HD video as compared to normalauflösendem . However, the use of new DVD formats will be required by the MPEG-2 HD to improve the compression factor of H.264 and WM9 not always, especially if double-layer DVD (can be used with 7.95 GB of space).
