One of, if not the, major knocks against BD so far has been the fact that the movies have been MPEG2 encoded and that 25GB of space doesn’t seem to be enough to hold an MPEG2 movie encoded at a good quality. People seem to be of the opinion that the MPEG4 or VC-1 codecs should be used, because the movies would take up a lot less space on the disc, allowing the quality to be cranked. That variable will be taken out of the equation, if this post from Home Theater Spot is to be believed.

In it, the author says that he talked to Warner, and that Warner confirmed that, of their second wave of BD titles, only Full Metal Jacket will use MPEG2 encoding. Lethal Weapon, Blazing Saddles, and Firewall will all be encoded using VC-1. If true, this is very interesting. I’d be really curious to see what Firewall looks like on an HD DVD player versus a corrected Samsung player.

Hmmmm….

Warner confirms VC1 for Blu-ray