Posted by Jeff Rife on 12/22/05 17:52

Mark Remfrey (remfreym_nospam_@hotmail.com) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> Not quite true.... DVD MPEG-2 encoding allows for both interlaced or
> progressive streams, however most DVD's don't use progressive as almost all
> players don't have progressive stream handling capability.

Since there is *no* requirement in the DVD spec for a player to handle
progressive encoding, this has turned into a de facto prohibition against
progressive encoding.

I don't know why people say things like "most DVD's don't use progressive"
when the reality is that *no* commercial DVDs use progressive encoding.

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