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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Early on, HD-DVD was noticeably better because Sony specified the same MPEG2 codec as DVDs whereas TOSHIBA adopted the far superior HD-focused VC9 CODEC and matching editing and disk mastering software.
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I thought Panasonic was the one who developed HD-DVD; that's the name I remember Sony paying big bucks to to bow out of the US and EU markets. They could still sell HD-DVD in China and there was speculation that they'd still make plenty of money because of that.