HD AND Blue-Ray

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 3:42 am

the Black Monarch wrote:Call me crazy, but when DVDs are already encoded with so much goddamn mosquito noise and compression artificing, I think upping the bitrate (Blue-ray) <b>at the same resolution</b> is a better idea than quadrupling the resolution (HD) at the same bitrate.

Who said Blu-ray video discs would retain DVD-spec resolution?

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 3:46 am

TaranT, apparently.

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 4:00 am

I did ?

The article that I quoted was not specific. The two competing standards are Blu-Ray Disc (BD) and HD-DVD. Neither one is DVD-spec in the sense of DVDs that we have today. There will be two new specs unless some compromise is reached. I have not seen any numbers for the new resolutions (haven't looked very hard). 480p seems an unlikely limit since (1) we've already got that and (2) new TVs are capable of more.

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 3:57 pm

Encoding a DVD at a resolution that TVs don't run at is stupid.

HD-DVD is almost guaranteed to be the same resolution as HDTV (1440x960).

Therefore, if Blue Ray discs aren't the same thing as HD-DVD, they'll probably be 720x480.

Unless either will be designed mostly for widescreen TVs, which would just be retarded (seeing as how most TVs in the world are still fullscreen).