Posted by jayembee on 10/03/05 01:48

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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