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

["Mark Rages" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Jan 7, 2008 1:57 PM, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Ryan Thornton wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>
> That makes sense.  I think he "Lost" episodes that my son was into were
> being stored in a 2-per-CD size, which they called HD.  I guess it is just
> compressed HD, but it does look good.
>

HD refers to a resolution, not a certain quality.  So you can have HD
video that fits on a CD.  It may be compressed to blurry blocks
everywhere, but it will still be HD.

Uncompressed HD doesn't really exist in the consumer world.

Regards,
Mark
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Mark Rages, Engineer
Midwest Telecine LLC
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