No big deal.
Sony put his format as a "native" one.
Since you can run Linux with PS3 you'll be able to shoot VLC, and this means that almost format can be supported.
Anyway a lot of people is shifting to h.264 due to the better quality and compression rate.
Plus, this Video 9 format seems to be expecially designed for streaming media and if it's open for anyone it only means a "plus".
Get real, there are lots of formats and versions, Sony is unwilling to go after each codec (expecially not "market" ones), so they just put in reference ones.
This post has been edited by ConteZero76: Nov 14 2006, 05:20 PM