Alistair_M
Second Unit
- Joined
- Oct 11, 2002
- Messages
- 276
I was surprised at how low the bitrates are on certain recent dvds I have bought - both goldmember and XXX had very low bitrates 2.5-3.5 over whole chunks of the movie. And yet these movies were highly rated in terms of picture quality and sharpness. DVD encoding is getting better and better.
I would wait until we see what high def looks like on dvd9. It may surprise us.
However I do subscribe to the conspiracy theory that hollywood wants to sell us the same movies MANY times over over the next 20 years.
SD DVD
SD DVD Special Edition Deluxe Edn
HD DVD Red laser (low bitrate, 720)
HD DVD Blue Laser (high bitrate, 720)
HD DVD Blue Laser (high bitrate 1080) etc etc
Personally if I was in the movie indusry with my make money hat on - that is exactly what I would do. It makes no sense to them to give us a 1080 based product now. The smart business decision for them will be to make it 'good enough' to coax us to upgrade...but stop you from being totally satisfied so they can sell you the movie again in 5 years time in the next iteration in quality.
I would wait until we see what high def looks like on dvd9. It may surprise us.
However I do subscribe to the conspiracy theory that hollywood wants to sell us the same movies MANY times over over the next 20 years.
SD DVD
SD DVD Special Edition Deluxe Edn
HD DVD Red laser (low bitrate, 720)
HD DVD Blue Laser (high bitrate, 720)
HD DVD Blue Laser (high bitrate 1080) etc etc
Personally if I was in the movie indusry with my make money hat on - that is exactly what I would do. It makes no sense to them to give us a 1080 based product now. The smart business decision for them will be to make it 'good enough' to coax us to upgrade...but stop you from being totally satisfied so they can sell you the movie again in 5 years time in the next iteration in quality.