EETimes reports on Microsoft’s Corona encoder - a video encoder that is touted as being superior to MPEG-2. The movie business is in a quandry, faced with the technical demands needed to put HD movies on disk. Using conventional compression, they would need to convert to costly blue-laser driven systems. Microsoft offers them a way to put more data on existing disks with just firmware upgrades.

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