Blu-ray's MPEG-2 support announcement baffles experts

According to Sony Pictures senior VP of advanced technologies, Don Ecklund, "Advanced formats don't necessarily improve picture quality ... Our goal is to present the best picture quality for Blu-Ray. Right now, and for the foreseeable future, that's with MPEG-2."

His comments don't baffle me. I suppose this title is referring to the script kiddies who engage in flame wars all over the internet without even understanding how this MPEG stuff works. They (script kiddies) probably think DivX is a standard. LOL.

If anyone wants to do a head-to-head comparison of H.264 vs. MegaPEG HDTV produced MPEG-1/MPEG-2 VBR at 1920x1080p 24fps (feature film encoding) using a peak bitrate of 54 Mbits/s, I'll take all comers.