True but they could increase the video bit-rate to fill the 50GB disc and should be able to at least match the picture quality of a VC1 encoded 30GB HD DVD. For audio they would be much better off (disc space) if they used DD+ or even TrueHD but the problem there is no BD players decode the...
Not really true. MS can't require anyone to produce HD DVD titles. The thing is the MS encoder was designed for HD DVD authored titles and later on they (Microsoft) added a utility to convert a HUD DVD stream to a BD stream. So to author a BD titles with the MS encoder one must first author a...