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

["Joseph Ondrus" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Jan 8, 2008 12:14 AM, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

It depends on how you define "decent."  I grew up watching four channels
on a 13" b&w tv, so I know what indecent is like!  I also know what my 26"
Sony Wega set (bought in 2000) looks like, and I would say that it is
quite good, very decent.  I think the Lost rips also looked pretty good
but not perfect.  Hey - I just dug one up and figured this out:

Title: Lost.S01E01.HDTV.XviD-LOL
Length: 42:40
Video size: 624 x 352  <-- quite far from HD!
File size: 366,903,296 bytes
Audio codec: MPEG Layer-3 Decoder 

Video codec: Nero Video Decoder

Yeah sounds like our definition of decent is a bit different.  I prefer FLAC audio and nothing less than xxxx by 720.  I guess thats why I have 5TB for my media at my place :)
 

There were some artifacts on some of the rips though. Sometimes the audio
would go out of sync with the video, which can be very annoying, but that
was probably the fault of the player.

Just from my experience, issue like that are generally because it was a bad rip or was not properly put back together (audio and video) when it was ripped. Same goes with the artifacts.
 

The best video quality I've ever seen was in a Sony outlet store in FL
last week.  It was a big plasma screen playing a Blu-ray demo disc.  It
was prtty amazing.  I just wanted to stand and stare at it.  I know better
than to buy something like that -- I watch too much TV already!  We all
see plenty of HDTVs demoing stuff in the stores but this was really
outstanding and better than anything else I've seen.

I guess DVD9 means more than 4.7 GB and approaching 8.5 GB?  That's
obviously enormous.  On my nice-but-not-HD TV I have viewed some ripped
DVDs that were created by taking a dual-layer disc and compressing its
contents onto a single-layer disc and I couldn't tell the difference.  So
I guess I'm lucky -- I am blind/deaf enough that I can save money on TV
and audio equipment!  I'm also OK with most, but not all, 128kbps MP3
files (I still use VBR 160-224 for mine).

Mike

 

Yeah DVD9 is a dual layer, 8.5GB (7.95GiB).  Luckily I have too much time on my hands so I built a HD projector and saved money instead of buying an expensive TV, ahhh the college life!

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