MPEG-4 on DVD playes

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 8:41 pm

man, I wish I had the money to buy all this cool stuff like HDTV's.

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 8:57 pm

another question, with those blue lazer DVD's, what exctly would you be able to do with them for a regular TV? I mean, imagine how high the bitrates could get. Or how much video you could cram onto it. :drools:

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 1:51 am

I don't get the whole red-laser, blue-laser thing... I say just go with whatever gives the best video quality without taking up too much space...

tomj · Post by **tomj** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 7:38 am

CaTaClYsM wrote:another question, with those blue lazer DVD's, what exctly would you be able to do with them for a regular TV? I mean, imagine how high the bitrates could get. Or how much video you could cram onto it. :drools:

The point about blue lasers is that you can cram enough data on that you can use MPEG-2 for long form recording in HD, since realtime MPEG-2 codecs are almost cheap, and otherwise you're stuck with expensive D-VHS - while another standard puts MPEG-4 on a standard DVD to achieve HD resolution, since MPEG-4 coding in HD doesn't appear to be feasible in realtime yet.

(zettai, you should have been at Minami - there was a guy there who used to work for Philips, and a friend and I had great fun grilling him about optical tech...)