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Posted by Tricky Dicky on 06/24/06 00:06
"Gunther Gloop" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Tricky Dicky wrote:
>> "the dog from that film you saw"
>> <dsb@REMOVETHECAPITALSbtinternet.com> wrote in message
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>>> <mmaker@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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>>>> the dog from that film you saw wrote:
>>>>> i'm saying 'superbit' dvds are everyday normal dvds and in no way
>>>>> special.
>>>>
>>>> Well, they have a higher bit-rate so potentially less compression
>>>> artifacts.
>>>
>>> no! - that's the point.
>>> sure they may have a higher bit rate than some, but there's plenty
>>> of dvds out there with identical bitrates that just happen to not
>>> have a certain word printed on the cover.
>>
>> So if a company released a standard bitrate DVD and then released a
>> higher bitrate version it would still be worth getting?
>>
>> I was not naive enough to think the whole "superbit" branding was not
>> a marketing man's wet dream - but there had to be some actual
>> improvement over the previous release
>>
>> I daresay there are non superbit disks that have lower bitrates than
>> so called normal disks
>>
>
> The point is, if all dvds that are released under the "superbit" label,
> were instead released under a label called "Supreme" (or anything else),
> nobody would be even quoting them as "technically superior" -except to say
> that their quality can be of a high standard.. on the whole.
>
> All discs are normal discs -including "superbit" discs. I heard someone
> say recently that the "standard" Panic Room dvd has a higher bitrate than
> the 1-disc (more expensive) "Superbit" release of the same movie.
>
> I've seen some "Superbit" dvds -eg. Resident Evil and 5th Element.
> Apart from being almost totally crap films (another feature of most
> Superbit releases), they looked good, but clearly no better than most
> other dvds.
Okay.
But the use of the word "superbit" implies this product is technically
superior.
Surely, lawyer type people would not have allowed the use of a word the
infers technical superioty if it was a load of old bollocks?
Tricky
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