Posted by Jeff Rife on 10/14/05 19:12

AZ Nomad (aznomad@PmunOgeBOX.com) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> However, IMNSHO HDTV is too little an improvement to dump DVDs or even
> laserdiscs.

Then, you obviously haven't seen any HDTV. I can agree that "dumping" the
old stuff would be silly, but if the new discs and players were priced
the even close to DVDs, it'll be a no-brainer (assuming no "Internet
authorization" crap) to buy them for new releases. Other advantages to
the new discs might be full bitrate DTS for most movies, since the 1.4Mbps
of a DTS track is nothing compared to the 15-25Mbps of the movie itself.

> It's only twice as sharp as the old crappy NTSC and still needs
> to improve at least fivefold to even approach film quality.

I'm not sure where you learned to do math, but "old crappy NTSC" is about
480x360 for a 16:9 picture. DVD (which is *good* NTSC) is 720x480 (with
discs that are "enhanced for 16:9 TVs"). Both are interlaced.

HDTV on disc can be 1920x1080 and progressive scan. That's 12 times as
many pixels as "old crappy NTSC" and 6 times as many as DVD, plus you get
progressive scan.

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