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Posted by Jim Johnson on 10/03/05 12:17
True maybe, but the superbit disk always feature a dts track on movies that
don't have it on the original disk which is a big plus in my book.
Jim
"jayembee" <jayembeenospam@snurcher.com> wrote in message
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> electrictroy@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> jayembee wrote:
>>> electrictroy@gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> BOTTOM LINE: They should be releasing more movies/tv shows in SuperBit
>>>> format.
>>>
>>> They do. They just don't call them Superbit. Superbit is trademark by
>>> Sony.
>>> "Superbit" is just a marketing scam, like "Special Edition".
>>
>> "Superbit" was originally coined by Columbia, not Sony,
>
> Sony is Columbia's parent company.
>
>> and it's not a scam. Removing all the extra material provides nearly
>> twice as much room for the Video, resulting in better quality.
>
> It's a scam, because the song and dance about how superior Superbit
> is allows them to charge more for the Superbit editions. Not to mention
> that they should be that quality to begin with.
>
> If you have a player capable of displaying the bitrate, try checking out
> some of your discs. Any disc with a bitrate over 9 qualifies as "Superbit"
> (the max being 10). There are a lot of discs out there with that high a
> bitrate that don't advertise themselves as being something worth
> paying twice as much for.
>
>> Look at the difference yourself. The normal dvd is blurred, like a VHS
>> tape, where the Superbit version brings out the details:
>
> Largely because the original transfers weren't very good.
>
> -- jayembee
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