[QUES] why was HDV adopted, and not H.264?


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[QUES] why was HDV adopted, and not H.264?
by steve on May 25, 2005 at 3:55:20 pm

I've watch a few high-definition movie trailers encoded at only 8 Mbps using the new H.264 codec. They look pretty amazing.

And it lead me to wonder - why didn't Sony, JVC, etc. adopt H.264 as the standard for their new prosumer HD cameras instead of HDV with it's Mpeg2 codec?

I realize this is probably over simplification, but if H.264 can make a HD movie trailer look awesome at 8Mbps, imagine how nice it could look at 25 Mbps (the current DV standard)!

With H.264 you could have also avoided all the complexity of the long GOP structures in HDV, and all the compression artifacts that Mpeg2-GOP entails.

any thoughts why HDV was chosen over H.264?
steve

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[QUES] why was HDV adopted, and not H.264? by steve on May 25, 2005 at 3:55:20 pm
- Re: [QUES] why was HDV adopted, and not H.264? by David Roth Weiss on May 25, 2005 at 5:15:51 pm
  - Re: [QUES] why was HDV adopted, and not H.264? by Steve Connor on May 25, 2005 at 9:18:17 pm
  - Re: [ANS] Some reasons why HDV doesn't use H.264 by Lorin Thwaits on May 25, 2005 at 9:18:32 pm
    - Re: [ANS] Some reasons why HDV doesn't use H.264 by David Roth Weiss on May 25, 2005 at 9:40:47 pm
      - Re: [ANS] Some reasons why HDV doesn't use H.264 by Ken Hodson on May 26, 2005 at 12:21:57 am
    - Re: [ANS] Some reasons why HDV doesn't use H.264 by vsv on May 26, 2005 at 11:12:25 am
  - Re: [QUES] why was HDV adopted, and not H.264? by daniel_l on May 26, 2005 at 4:29:22 am
- Re: [QUES] why was HDV adopted, and not H.264? by Dan Achatz on May 26, 2005 at 1:09:19 am
- Re: [QUES] why was HDV adopted, and not H.264? by MPE on May 26, 2005 at 10:33:26 am
- Re: [QUES] why was HDV adopted, and not H.264? by Kelly on May 29, 2005 at 2:53:16 am

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