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Posted by Gunther Gloop on 06/24/06 08:12
Tricky Dicky wrote:
> "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?
>
Ha. It implies it in the mind of people who take it that way. Obviously they
want to imply that. It doesn't make it so though.
-Kevin.
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