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Frank@N · 09-29-2006, 03:31 PM

Found this bit of at www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html

"Picture dimensions are at maximum 720x480 (for 525/60 NTSC display) or 720x576 (for 625/50 PAL/SECAM display). Pictures are subsampled from 4:2:2 ITU-R BT.601 down to 4:2:0 before encoding, allocating an average of 12 bits/pixel in Y'CbCr format. (Color depth is 24 bits, since color samples are shared across 4 pixels.)"

Now if I only understood what it means...

09-29-2006, 03:31 PM	#2 of 6
Frank@N Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Local Time: 01:04 AM Local Date: 12-02-2008 Posts: 1,679	Re: What is the color depth level of the DVD format? Found this bit of at www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html "Picture dimensions are at maximum 720x480 (for 525/60 NTSC display) or 720x576 (for 625/50 PAL/SECAM display). Pictures are subsampled from 4:2:2 ITU-R BT.601 down to 4:2:0 before encoding, allocating an average of 12 bits/pixel in Y'CbCr format. (Color depth is 24 bits, since color samples are shared across 4 pixels.)" Now if I only understood what it means... Last edited by Frank@N : 09-29-2006 at 03:33 PM.