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DVD (ifo/vob) will continue to be the primary movie format for many years to come with DivX taking a backseat .. (a very far in the back backseat at that)
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I don't know about MANY years. As we all may or may not know, today's DVD is tomorrow's betamax. I honestly have no clue how DVD became as popular as it has (I used to think it was great) but thankfully we have two new formats fighting for the title of HD DVD in the next 1-3 years (guesstamating) with Sony's Blu-Ray (bleck) and also AOD (Advanced Optical Disc). These are going to make DVD's look like garbage and I can't wait. In fact, I won;t even bother buying DVD's knowing that these will come out in the next years to come. By the way, Sony is sticking with MPEG-2 whereas AOD is trying to optimaize a compression closer to a MPEG-4 standard. Compression sucks (i.e. digital cable and satellite looks like ass compared to those big a** C-band satellites), but if you are going to use it, why not use it with the most efficiency (MPEG4 over MPEG2)?