Posted by Gunther Gloop on 06/23/06 17:19

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.

-Kevin.


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