Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Warner Backs Blu-ray, Tilting DVD Battle

["Ryan Thornton" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

The HD rips you see are not HD quality, but compress from an original
HD source.  For most items this means that it starts with better
quality and widescreen, even if it's compress way down to something
easy to download.  Most try to compress to meet the size of a DVD, or
as low as 1 CD, 2 to a CD, or to fit a season on a disk.   There are
lots of flags and settings to customized to it a certain size
requirement.

-- Ryan

On Jan 7, 2008 1:17 AM, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Joseph Ondrus wrote:
>
> > I watch compressed HD and Blu-Ray rips, on a 10 foot (1080p)
> > screen...cant tell the difference if I pop in the original or not.  The
> > rips range from 4-12GB, no 20gb.
>
> Very interesting.  The 20 GB would be the original (roughly).
>
>
> > 1megabyte/sec is plenty fast for downloading HD movies, I didn't know
> > people still downloaded standard def!
>
> People are downloading a lot more very low-res video than anything else
> (e.g., YouTube.com).  They download a lot of supposed HD TV, but I'm
> seeing stuff like 360 MB for an hour of video and there is no way that's
> really HD.  People also download a lot of ripped DVD which is also not HD.
> That said, I'm not really clear on how HD is defined!
>
> Some of the stuff I was saying earlier about 20GB for one HD movie came
> from my memory of this Slashdot posting:
>
> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/16/1829212
>
>
> Mike
>
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