Corona is not supported in current hardware (or in the 2-generations old hardware in the xbox) via DXVA. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/p...ideoCardPR.asp The next generation of the xbox is another story...
I think Microsoft's real motivation behind Corona is its use as an efficient codec for PC-based PVR for HDTV. Microsoft has had a long-term goal of moving the PC out of the home office and into the living room as a set-top box - they've stated this many times in the past. For that purpose it...
Step Into Liquid is encoded at 5.5 and also at 6.9 Mbps. The 6.9 Mbps version is a slight improvement, but still has very heavy artifacting and is not what I would consider an improvement over a well-encoded MPEG-2 dvd. I have a CRT front projector and I've been using the Step Into Liquid...