Buyers beware: the R1/R4 version of Monsters, Inc. is NOT widescreen (1 Viewer)

[Michael St. Clair]

Per the bit rate viewer, the Canadian version is also 6.30 Mb/sec.

Yep, they could have cranked it up but they didn't.

 

[BenjaminG]

The R2/R4 average Bit Rate is 6.84 mb/s. There is still 1.7 GB left though.

 

[Michael St. Clair]

The R2/R4 average Bit Rate is 6.84 mb/s

Could be soundtrack differences, could be PAL/NTSC differences.

Sounds like everybody got a watered-down video bitrate for this release.

 

[James Reader]

Region 2/4 will have a higher bit rate as it has a DTS soundtrack.

 

[Michael St. Clair]

Region 2/4 will have a higher bit rate as it has a DTS soundtrack.

Yep, but that won't help the picture quality. It might even hurt it by reducing peak (not average) bitrate available to the video stream.

 

[Anthony Horan]

The R2/R4 version might have an average bitrate of 6.87Mbit/sec, but I don't see why that's "watered down". Aside from the fact that it's only marginally below the average rate of many so-called "superbit" discs, the bitrate graph for this disc shows that the data rate often gets up to 10Mbit/sec, and drops as low as 5. In other words, it's intelligently encoded, taking full advantage of VBR.

The most important thing, though, is that the picture quality is completely flawless. I can't see how raising the data rate on less complex scenes would have improved what's already there.


- Anthony

 

[Matthew_F]

About the bitrate between the CDN and US. The US is better overall or the CDN?

Even thou the figures were listed. I'm not quite sure because it's not the same person and the same software used to get the figures may not be the same either.

 

[Robert Spalding]

I ordered the R3 Hong Kong version and will let you know what the bitrate is when I get it next week.

 

[Gareth Flynn]

Bitrate Viewer reports that the Japanese Region 2 release has an average bitrate of 7.6Mb/sec. A 768kbps DTS 5.1 soundtrack is included.

 

[Olly Dean]

the P&S crowd really got pimped!

I could be wrong here but I think the WS version has a higher bitrate because as it's anamorphic widescreen it has more data on the sides. Therefore there is more data coming in than on the same sequence in the FS version.

For the R2 version (UK R2, it could be different elsewhere) we got a 'Family Edition' which was the movie only with a fullscreen transfer and no special features, and then we had a special edition which was in a nice slip case and was basically the US version but with their FS transfer replaced with a DTS track.

 

[Jeff Kleist]

could be wrong here but I think the WS version has a higher bitrate because as it's anamorphic widescreen it has more data on the sides. Therefore there is more data coming in than on the same sequence in the FS version.

No, since it takes up the same physical screen data storage space as 4:3

 

[Robert Spalding]

The Hong Kong R3 version with DTS has an average bitrate of 7.23 Mb/sec. DTS is encoded at half.

 

[Hendrik]

...I have to wonder: do you people ever watch THE MOVIE...?...
. . . :frowning: . . .