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MPEG-2 vs VC1: "MPEG-2 is just as good"... really?
Cast your mind back to over a year ago, when Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced they'd be using MPEG-2 video compression on their Blu-ray Movies instead of newer and more advanced formats. It was claimed that they were doing this because MPEG-2 was, apparently, superior to newer formats for their intents and purposes.
Most people (myself included) now concur that from a technical standpoint, this was and still is questionable. There are still some people who claim that MPEG-2 is every bit as good as the newer MPEG-4 AVC or VC1 systems, and those people are right when they say it's what you feed into one of those video compression systems that makes or breaks the end result - not the compression itself. Nevertheless, anyone trying to claim that the now aged MPEG-2 codec can match the likes of VC1 needs to wake up and smell the recurring pictorial examples, like the ones that are being posted by the guys 'n' gals on the AVS Forum.
Edit: this is from "Underworld: Evolution".
Hmm, yes, just as good... The results are even more valid still when you consider that, going by appearances, it seems that both discs were made from the same master tape. Fortunately though, Sony seem to be using MPEG-4 AVC for their new releases, which is, in the right hands, seemingly as capable as Microsoft's VC1. Some comparisons between that, if any chances present themselves, should be interesting.
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