Sony Blu-ray Disc™ Player User Manual

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What video codecs will Blu-ray support?

MPEG-2 - enhanced for HD, also used for 
playback of DVDs and HD recordings.

MPEG-4 AVC - part of the MPEG-4 
standard also known as H.264 (High Profile 
and Main Profile)

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SMPTE VC-1 - standard based on 
Microsoft

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 Windows

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 Media Video (WMV) 

technology

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.

Please note that this simply means that 

 

Blu-ray players will have to support 
playback of these video codecs, it will be up 
to the movie studios to decide which video 
codec(s) they use for their releases.